5. Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru

Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru [huanqiu.com]

It is the awesome scene: massive ice fields and blue-white glaciers span about 70 square kilometers of the Cordillera Oriental mountain range. As the largest body of ice in the tropics, Quelccaya Ice Cap provides water to the streams and river flowing in the valley below. Since 1978, Quelccaya Ice Cap has already lost 20 percent of its surface area and could totally disappear till the end o this century.

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