Climber seeks final thrill before climate change melts away Kilimanjaro glaciers

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VIDEO SHOWS: CLIMBERS HEAD TO GLACIERS ON AND AROUND MOUNT KILIMANJARO AND COMPARE THE MELTING GLACIERS TO THEIR SIZE A FEW YEARS AGO

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1. VARIOUS OF CLIMBERS TREKKING ACROSS NEAR MOUNT KILIMANJARO

2. CLIMBER WILL GADD HOLDING PHOTO OF AREA TAKEN IN 2014 AND SAYING (English):

"I was climbing right there, right on the edge of it, and then it went way back, probably 30 metres back there, and it was quite thick too, and now it's all gone except the one tiny, tiny fin."

3. VARIOUS OF GADD EXAMINING ICE FIN

4. VARIOUS OF GADD CLIMBING FIN

5. VARIOUS OF ICE MELTING

6. VARIOUS OF GADD CLIMBING BIG FACE OF EASTERN GLACIER

7. VARIOUS OF GADD CLIMBING A FIN AT EASTERN GLACIER

8. GADD LIFTING HIS HANDS IN AIR TO CELEBRATE CLIMB

STORY: Canadian ice climber Will Gadd returned to Mount Kilimanjaro this year after his first visit in 2014, in a race against time to repeat the climbs on the iconic route before the ice melts away permanently as a result of global warming.

In some places, thin fins remain where large glaciers once stood.

Gadd visited the site in February aiming to become the last person to climb the route first established by Reinhold Messner in 1978, while also wishing to see the effects of climate change in person.

Using GPS mapping, the team found out that the glacier fins have lost just under 70 percent of their ice mass since 2014.

(Production: Mussab Al-Khairalla)