Mt. Kilimanjaro's once majestic snowcap has melted to the point where it will now disappear by 2020.
Eliasson's point of focus is the ‘tongue,’ the geological term for glacial movement in which a mountain snowcap melts, runs down into, a valley and refreezes.
There's been a lot in the news lately about the alleged effects of warming on the snowcap of Kilimanjaro.
I could wait for summer, and take the same picture again in morning light - but by the time the sun is in the right place, the snowcap will have melted.
The best way to see it is on foot, along the five-day Druk Path between Paro and Thimpu, camping against a backdrop of towering snowcaps.
All you can get in this place are postcards of snowcaps and old Catholic churches.
You can see the snowcaps of the Big Island on clear days.
During the day, you ride, go to the geysers up among the snowcaps or walk the volcano.
The energy reflected was far more than expected, and the beam melted the snowcap.
‘We started out with about 17,’ he says after a brief hallucination in which the snowcaps of the Rockies were actually huge drifts of cocaine, ‘but we lost a bunch of people on the way.’
2A small Central American hummingbird with mainly purple plumage and a white crown.
（中美洲产的）白顶蜂鸟
Microchera albocoronata, family Trochilidae
Rhymes
toecap
Definition of snowcap in US English:
snowcap
nounˈsnōˌkap
1A covering of snow on the top of a mountain.
（山顶上的）雪冠，雪盖
Example sentencesExamples
The best way to see it is on foot, along the five-day Druk Path between Paro and Thimpu, camping against a backdrop of towering snowcaps.
The energy reflected was far more than expected, and the beam melted the snowcap.
Eliasson's point of focus is the ‘tongue,’ the geological term for glacial movement in which a mountain snowcap melts, runs down into, a valley and refreezes.
There's been a lot in the news lately about the alleged effects of warming on the snowcap of Kilimanjaro.
‘We started out with about 17,’ he says after a brief hallucination in which the snowcaps of the Rockies were actually huge drifts of cocaine, ‘but we lost a bunch of people on the way.’
During the day, you ride, go to the geysers up among the snowcaps or walk the volcano.
You can see the snowcaps of the Big Island on clear days.
All you can get in this place are postcards of snowcaps and old Catholic churches.
I could wait for summer, and take the same picture again in morning light - but by the time the sun is in the right place, the snowcap will have melted.
Mt. Kilimanjaro's once majestic snowcap has melted to the point where it will now disappear by 2020.
2A small Central American hummingbird with mainly purple plumage and a white crown.