Ice in the mist © Christian Pondella
Redbull posted an incredible photo essay of Will Gadd ice climbing in Africa. This is some of the last pieces of ice on Mt Kilimanjaro.
The approach, which took Will and his team a week to complete, wasn’t the only hard part.
“The climbing is very technically challenging,” says Will. “Doing 50 pull-ups at sea level is tough. Doing them at 6,000m is a lot tougher.”
Mt. Kilimanjaro is among many places in the world with shrinking ice fields. Surveys of Kilimanjaro’s ice fields a century ago found nearly 8 square miles (about 20 square kilometers) of ice. By 2003, the ice was down to 0.97 square miles (2.51 square km), and on June 17, 2011, the ice covered 0.68 square miles (1.76 square km). (Source)
From ‘Sally Ride Science’
People speculate that by 2020 there will be no more ice.
