Chacaltaya is located in Bolivia's Cordillera Real. Chacaltaya was famous then for being the world's highest ski run at 5,300 metres (17,400 feet). The glacier was one of the highest glaciers in South America, located about 30 kilometers (19 mi) from La Paz, near Huayna Potosí mountain.
Chacaltaya at 1990
Global Warming has effected the Chacaltaya glacier. The Chacaltaya glacier, predicted to disappear in 2015 by Bolivian scientists.
But if we see what happened today, its seems it’s will be faster dissapear. It can be next year !!.jpg)
The Chacaltaya glacier in 1996 (left) and today
Chacaltaya 2002
Chacaltaya 2007 "The main thing that we can do to stop this is reduce greenhouse gases," said Michael Zemp, a researcher at the University of Zurich's Department of Geography.
The pictures above are the Chacaltaya Glacier circa 1940 and 1982, top row, and 1996 and 2005, bottom row.
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