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...criticisms most frequently lobbed at Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is that he has his facts wrong about the snows of Kilimanjaro. Yes, those immortal snows are vanishing (actually, they're glaciers, but we can blame Ernest Hemingway for that bit of poetic license), as Gore's global-warming documentary contends, but they've been receding since the early 1900s at least - long before the planet began to warm...
...while the glaciers did start melting a century ago, their retreat has sped up dramatically in recent years. "We've lost 26% of the ice since 2000 alone. And that, unfortunately, is just what we predicted would happen." Within a few decades, he says, most if not all of Kilimanjaro's glaciers will be gone. (Read "Gore in the Senate: A More Receptive Audience...
...outdoor-equipment company that sponsors Zangrilli. "He's going to have to climb light and fast and maybe carry Pérez over his shoulder to get him down. But he's done it before. He's led a few world-class rescues." (Read a TIME article from Kilimanjaro...
...grateful for the opportunity to experience all the parts of Tanzania—the bustle of Arusha, the beaches of Zanzibar, the savanna of Ngorongoro. But it's the walk home to my house in the village after a long day of teaching, with sunflowers on my right and Kilimanjaro to my left, that will always be my Africa...
...Despite the global scope of her project, running with African children on Mount Kilimanjaro, visiting charity sites, and meeting other philanthropists in her travels have inspired her to continue running...