Intrepid Scientists
Scientists are under the belief that Kilimanjaro’s diminishing ice levels are part of a worldwide process of glacial evaporation. Some experts even contend that the icy nature of the mountain will cease to be by 2060. These alarming changes are being tied to climate change on a global basis, but there are deforestation projects closer to the peaks which may be exacerbating the issue.
Intrepid Scientists
2000 Years Later
Regardless, the year 2000 saw researchers drilling half a dozen ice cores out of Kilimanjaro in an attempt to better understand why the natural wonder’s frozen water stores are disappearing. A crew headed by Lonnie Thompson, a geologist from the Ohio State University, spent around thirty days shacked up on the mountain’s slopes at dizzying heights of 19,300 feet.
2000 Years Later
