Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Who cares about this climbing business anyway? A million people have already climbed Kilimanjaro, there’s nothing special to it."

"Actually, since Greenland has four percent, all the other glaciers in the world—Kilimanjaro, the Alps, the Himalaya, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Siberia—they all account for six percent of the planet’s ice."

"Kilimanjaro is melting."

"“In recent years, Kilimanjaro and its vanishing glaciers have become an ‘icon’ of global warming…[but] processes other than air temperature control the ice recession…A drastic drop in atmospheric moisture at the end of the 19th century and the ensuing drier climate conditions are likely forcing glacier retreat.”"