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Kilimanjaro snow melting,global warming, kilimanjaro climbing,trekking, environment conservation tree planting

Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro named top 'Exotic Adventure' for 2008 by USA Today

The African mountain's white peak - made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway - is rapidly melting, researchers report.

Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers in 1912 was gone by 2007, researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

And more than a quarter of the ice present in 2000 was gone by 2007.

If current conditions continue "the ice fields atop Kilimanjaro will not endure," the researchers said.

The Kilimanjaro glaciers are both shrinking, as the ice at their edges melts, and thinning, the researchers found.

Similar changes are being reported at Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori Mountains in Africa and at glaciers in South America and the Himalayas.

On Kilimanjaro, the researchers said, the northern ice field thinned by 6.2 feet (1.9 meters) and the southern ice field by 16.7 feet (5.1 meters) between 2000 and 2007.

Changes in the local vegetation around Kilimanjaro, which has lost much of it forests, may have affected the cloudiness and amount of snow that falls on the mountain. However, the scientists believe that warmer global temperatures have had a bigger impact on the rate at which its glaciers are melting.

Large numbers of people rely on mountain glaciers for a regular supply of water or hydroelectric power throughout the year.

The research blames warmer temperatures due to climate change and drier, less cloudy conditions than in the past.

"The climatological conditions currently driving the loss of Kilimanjaro's ice fields are clearly unique within an 11,700-year perspective," said the study, adding that the mountain lost 26 percent of its ice cover between 2000 and 2007.

"The loss of the ice fields will have a negative impact on tourism in tropical east Africa," said Thompson in an email to Reuters.

Home to elephant, leopard and buffalo, as well as expansive views of the Rift Valley, the mountain known as "the roof of Africa" was first scaled by a European, Hans Meyer, 120 years ago. While its Kibo peak rises above the clouds, it can be reached with little more than a walking stick and some puff.

Mount Kilimanjaro is a World Heritage Site and attracts thousands of climbers from every corner of the World to climb it. Many Tourists climb mount kilimanjaro for fun, climb it as adventure and others climb kilimanjaro as fundraising to help various communities in need.

Climbing Kilimanjaro contributes to the economy of Tanzania, raises GDP, and creates employment. At 5,896 meters high, Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the east African country's top tourism draws, offering tourists a taste of the tropical and the glacial within a five-day climb.

It brings in an estimated $50 million a year. Tourism is the leading foreign exchange earner in the poor country, earning $1.22 billion in 2008.

Trekking kilimanjaro is easy and good vacation holiday activity to choose. Kilimanjaro trekking routes are; Machame route mostly 6 days, Marangu can be climbed 5 and 6 days, Londorossi/Lemosho 7 or 8 days, Umbwe 5 day or 6 days,Londorossi/Western Breach 8-10 days, Rongai 6 days , 8 days Shira Exclusive fantastic route-through Shira Plateau from Londorossi gate is the most fascinating and scenic route up Kilimanjaro.

Kilimanjaro trekking departures every day, trek to the summit with your favourite route. Choose vacation holiday trekking with success and enjoyment.

--Kilimanjarosnow (talk) 07:32, 6 November 2009 (UTC)Due to above benefits of Mount Kilimanjaro and its snow, we should consider rescue snow melting. We should participate in tree planting. You can just choose Kilimanjaro and climb it and profits goes to tree planting environment conservation.

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