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World’s Highest Ski Resort in Meltdown

The Bolvian glacier of Chacaltaya above La Paz and home to the world’s highest ski station at 5 300 meters altitude (17,000 feet) is in danger of vanishing within five years according to scientists. The cause, a warming climate. Chacaltaya is the only ski station in Bolivia. Samuel Mendoza of the Bolivian Andes Ski Club has said it is the worst year they have known and that the club would like to use artifical snow making to conserve the skiing. The sole rudimentary ski lift dates from before the 2nd World War.



Photos of the evolution of the glacier from SkiPass.com

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