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World's highest ski resort is no more
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Time lapse showing glacier's meltdown
The Chacaltaya ski area in Bolivia, formerly the world’s highest, has stopped operating because the snow field on which it was located has melted away due to global warming. The world’s highest ski area is now Jade Dragon Ski Mountain in Yunnan Province, China, which was first accessed by a new gondola only ten years ago in 1999. ...Source: http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/2460
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

might come back now there are no sun spots?
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

It has been closed since last year.
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Yes, but that was due to avalanche risk and the road being blocked.






[Sorry, that's an old Chacaltaya joke]
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I was about to say, isn't this pretty old news that somehow folks have only started picking up on?
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John Enders of the Miami Herald has this well-written feature on the demise of the Chacaltaya ski area. Well worth a read:

http://www.miamiherald.com/579/story/1030126-p2.html

Quote:
But it's not the end of alpine skiing at Chacaltaya that worries researcher Ramirez, but the death of the glacier and what that means for the people of the Andean cordillera. On the western, mostly arid side of the Andes, millions of people depend on rain, snow run-off and melting glaciers like Chacaltaya, Illimani and Huayna Potosifor their water ...

... This year, for the first time, the amount of water flowing out of reservoirs serving nearly 2.5 million people in La Paz and its adjacent city, El Alto, will exceed the amount of water flowing into them. This eventually will become a major political issue for leaders in La Paz and El Alto, he said.


I wonder if this is an early warning for the Alps.
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