Trekking to Colombia’s melting glaciers on the ‘Climate Change Trail’ - Latin America Reports

Trekking to Colombia’s melting glaciers on the ‘Climate Change Trail’ - Latin America Reports

El Cocuy National Natural Park, Colombia — “We have to walk a bit further each time we come up here,” says Wilson Blanco, leading us over Colombia’s icy roof. That’s the gag among the El Cocuy mountain guides: as the glaciers recede, they must hike further up the mountain to reach the ice that marks the trek’s highest point. Except it’s no joke. The receding icefield, at 4,850 metres (15,900 feet), reveals a grey moonscape of boulder-strewn mora…