Every year tens of thousands of tourists visit Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Tanzania, Africa, (witness)the beautiful scenes described in Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. are attracted by the American writer's descriptions of the millennia-old glaciers. However, this tourist (attract)will vanish soon. According to the Climate Group, (form)by environmentalists worldwide to document the effects of global warming, Mount Kilimanjaro's snows and glaciers (disappear)and are likely to be gone altogether in the near future. Not only will the summit lose its appeal, the disappearance of the snows will also cause major damage the ecosystem on the dry African plains at its base. Without the snow (cover)the peak, there will not be enough water to keep the plants and animals below alive and (health). Rising temperatures, one of the main effects of global warming, thus threaten the ecosystem of this mountain area. The loss of the snows on the 5, 895m peak, have been there for about 11,700 years, could have disastrous effects on Tanzania.
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