(A former ski resort) – The Mount Chacaltaya at 5,421 meters (17,785 ft) above sea level, the Cordillera Real, Bolívia, South America.
Image by ER’s Eyes – Our planet is so beautiful.
Former Sky Resort on our right.
La Paz is just above the third lake.
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The view would have looked very different 20 years ago:
Thought to be 18,000 years old;
Bolivian scientists started measuring it in the 1990s;
They predicted in 2005 that it would survive until 2015;
But it shrank faster than expected and had vanished almost completely by 2009;
Scientists think that the speed of its melting is an indicator of climate change.
