El Pastoruri

Our featured site for today is Ride for Climate: Americas, about an 18 month long bicycle ride designed to raise awareness of global warming. Our rider climbs mountains too, and talks about melting glaciers near Huaraz, where I have been and may now go again. The glacier Pastoruri is almost 50% melted at this point. In 20 years most glaciers will have melted, and in 50 years there will be no snow capped peaks. That, in turn, will mean there is no water for agriculture. I would like to speak to Pastoruri in Quechua before he is gone.

Axé.


3 thoughts on “El Pastoruri

  1. I’ve sent this on to some geologists I know, including one who studies glaciers. They’ve been to the Andes and Antarctica, but not by bike!

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