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1 Holly // Apr 14, 2010 at 9:45 pm
This is really amazing… I had no idea that elders were dying from the change in glacial ice.
2 Cold Spaghetti :: Just Posts: March 2010 // Apr 15, 2010 at 10:37 am
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4 Barb // May 3, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Thanks, Holly, for the Just Post nod. Yes, the ukukus started noticing that the ice was becoming precarious back in the 1990s and then there was this spate of deaths that made the issue critical for them, back in the mid- to late’90s. It took a number of years after that for all the ukukus to agree not to go on the ice in large numbers — and there are still ukukus who sneak up there, largely because the ice is considered to be so important for their community’s welfare. Risking death has always been part of the ukukus’ role, however. They are the ones who are supposed to protect the pilgrims. Ironically, more pilgrms are getting hurt nowadays than are ukukus, not from stepping on the ice itself but from falling rocks that have been stripped of the ice that once held them together.
Rapidly melting glaciers are extremely hazardous for these reasons, as the people of the high Andes and the Himalayas know firsthand.