The snows of Kilimanjaro (Tanzania)

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At 5900 m, Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa. This gives it the privilege of wearing a white crown even though it is only 300 km from the equator. But the eternal snows of Kilimanjaro are under threat and climate change is the cause. It is estimated that the ice cap lost 82 % of its mass between 1912 and 2000. It may disappear completely by 2020.