The "very, very beautiful" Lewis Glacier on Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak, is now little more than "small patches of ice and snow", says veteran guide Charles Kibaki Muchiri. It is one of the few mountains on the African continent with glaciers, and scientists fear it could become one of the first in modern times to turn entirely ice-free as soon as 2030.
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00:00Those colors of the white snow, the ice would make the mountain very, very beautiful.
00:21Right now, just rocks and just small patches of ice and snow.
00:27So big, big change of the weather.
00:30There used to be a very big volume of water going down, but right now, not much left.
00:49So that shows the snow melting from up there.
00:53So we expect maybe in a few years to come, even the river might dry up completely.
01:23Before Samia's back, there used to be ice caves here.
01:27We would come here, get inside the caves and have good photos.
01:31But right now, the caves are gone.
01:33The Levis glacier is disappearing.
01:37A lot of water is melting on the glacier.
01:41And so we expect the glacier will continue becoming smaller and smaller.
01:47And maybe in the future, Samia, it will disappear completely.
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