Furtwängler Glacier

Furtwangler Glacier is located near the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The glacier is named after who, with Siegfried König, formed the fourth party to ascend to the summit of Kilimanjaro in 1912. The glacier is a small remnant of an ice cap that once crowned the summit of Kilimanjaro. Almost 85 percent of the ice cover disappeared from October 1912 to June 2011. In 2013 it was estimated that at the then-current rate, most of the ice would disappear by 2040 and "it is highly unlikely …