Talk:Chacaltaya

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Picture
The picture of the ski resort in 2007 is absolutely amazing. I'm surprised it hasn't been featured yet. Esn (talk) 19:25, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Booga Booga.... No offense to all the tree huggers out there but if this is the best you can come up with for climate change.... give up. This is a very pathetic excuse for a glacier that has probably been in retreat for a hundred years. Nothing to see here.... move along. One of the warmest areas of the world, in fact the only mountain with snow on it in the area.... ooh... yes it's the end of the world. Where I live in Canada it's still friggin snowing and it's May 12th. Global Warming my ass. If you don't know what I'm referring to look at this article.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8046540.stm

The BBC is on some sort of new narcotic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.60.237.16 (talk) 23:34, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * This really strange thing for me is that the place only gets 500mm of precipitation and has a mean temperature of +1C. With climate data like this, it's amazing that this glacier even existed to start with. It must have been really, really wet in the past, averaging well over 1000mm of precipitation to even develop a glacier. Tatlayoko (talk) 22:35, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, well, if you compare its extents in 1940 with the little shit that's left, you'll see that there has been a pretty damn dramatic melting there in just sixty-nine years. Most of that has happened in the last twenty or so. One cold winter in Canada or the United States doesn't disprove climate change when glaciers and arctic ice sheets thousands of years old are disappearing. What vested interest do you have in denying it? Eris Discord | Talk 01:20, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

No more skiing?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aijxVBCguhJM

The above source indicates the lift has not been functioning as of 2003. There certainly could be hike/telemark skiing during the southern winter. It would just require sufficient snow. The glacier however is almost completely gone. So the traditional summer (November-march, southern summer) glacier skiing has been at an end for awhile now.

Unless someone has a more recent article or reliable reports to contradict this. If you do, please correct my corrections! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hvatum (talk • contribs) 09:28, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Translation of "Chacaltaya"
The article says it means "Cold road". According to Special:Diff/288291863 which added the information, it's from a Miami Herald article. The reference was deleted when the link went dead, but I found a copy and added the citation back.

But a Bloomberg article says the translation is "bridge of ice". I can see how the meanings are related, but that seems too large a gap for variant translations.

A quick web search failed to find additional sources on either side that don't appear to be themselves copied from wikipedia, so we have conflicting sources. Can someone track down a definitive answer? 71.41.210.146 (talk) 15:51, 20 September 2015 (UTC)