A final climb of Kilimanjaro's melting glaciers

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Climbing Kilimanjaro’s melting glaciers

before they disappear

Location: Tanzania

Canadian ice climber Will Gadd

has returned to complete the iconic route

he first climbed in 2014

before the glaciers melt away

as a result of global warming

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 meters back there, and it was quite thick too, and now it's all gone except the one tiny, tiny fin."

Using GPS mapping

the team discovered that the glacier fins

have lost just under 70% of their ice mass since 2014