Ice Memory: An ambitious international scientific project on the heights of Kilimanjaro
What you need to know:
The largest mass of ice still available lies on the Northern icefield of Kilimanjaro, at 5800m altitude. With a surface of 0,5km² it could preserve, frozen in its midst, a unique and last archive of 11700 years of climate and environmental history. Recent studies have shown in 2015 that the maximum thickness of this glacier is still 53m
