Subscribe RSSAnd one of the saddest claims of some scientists and environmental activists is that those glaciers are disappearing, perhaps before the end of the decade, another victim of rising pandemic temperatures.
Athumani Juma doesn't believe it. A guide who's been hiking the mountain for the past seven years, he laughed when he was asked about the good chance that Kilimanjaro's snowcap would disappear soon. The glaciers, he claimed, no longer are shrinking, but growing.
"Before, we were seeing glaciers melting," he explained during a up to date descent from the summit. "But from 2010 to now, we have been seeing new glaciers."
So is one of the most popularly cited examples of the adverse effects of man-made mood change, Kilimanjaro's great melt, a myth?
Yes and no, said Georg Kaser, a professor at Innsbruck University in Austria who's a matchless expert on low-latitude glaciers, including Kilimanjaro's.
