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'Save the snow' Kilimanjaro climb - success!

BookmarkThis 04.01.2008
Philips
 

Following on from the story on Voltimum UK a few days ago about 45 Philips employees, their families and friends, attempting to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro (5895m), the highest mountain in Africa, they have achieved success:

Mt. Kilimanjaro - the snows are going fast.
Mt. Kilimanjaro - the snows are going fast.
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The climb has been designed to promote energy efficient lighting as a part solution to the huge and growing problem of climate change. The climbers also aim to raise money for an Oxfam Novib project in Tanzania. It is not yet known how many of the 45 climbers made it to the top, or whether they reached the true summit, or Gillmans Point on the crater rim.

Much ice has has disappeared from the summit because of climate change, and the the top of the mountain has seen a retreat of the most recent covering of glaciers, with the most recent ice cap volume dropping by more than 80%. In 2002, a study led by Ohio State University ice core paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson predicted that ice on top of Africa's tallest peak would be gone between 2015 and 2020. Apart from greatly reducing the iconic and visual impact of this great white mountain rising out of the East African plains, if all the ice does disappear, there will be severe knock-on ennvironmental effects for the animals and people within a wide area.

To see the full earlier story, please click on: www.voltimum.co.uk/news/9100/infopro.profnews.voltimum/-Save-the-snow--Kilimanjaro-initiative-by-Philips-employees.html


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Philips Lighting
Guildford Business Park,
Guildford GU2 8XH
Tel: 01483 293 071
Fax: 01483 575534
Email: barbara.neate@philips.com
Web: www.lighting.philips.co.uk
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