Since 1996, energy balance measurements have been carried out in the vicinity of the mean equilibrium line 5150 m a.s.l. on Zongo Glacier 2.1 km .

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The world average for glacier melt is 1.2 meters per year, but in Greenland it's much faster.

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Try skiing in July at the 2, 455m-high glacier Debeli Namet, fed year-round by avalanching snow.

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The glacier starts just below the summit and extends for some 2, 000 feet before giving way to huge boulder fields of volcanic rock.

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If glacier wastage continues at the present trend as observed during the last 2 decades, it will severely affect the water resources in the arid central Andes of Argentina.

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Moreover, the Kilimanjaro glacier is melting in a way that suggests it is probably not caused by the supposedly CO 2-induced higher temperatures but by reduced precipitation.

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One glacier in northern Greenland was clocked going from 50 meters to 650 meters a year (about 160 feet to 2, 100 feet) over the course of seven years.

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Finally, Tolkien continued across the 2, 165m Grimsel Pass and through upper Valais to the village of Brig, before crossing the Aletsch glacier, the largest in the Alps, into the popular mountain resort of Zermatt.

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