I'm happy to report that you are all correct...sort of. Each of you please go out and have a beer or two on me. Just PM me the bill, and then all of you go hide someplace. But as far as this game, dear old uncle phil was the first to post the right answer, so now it's his turn. Go, unc!
I said "sort of" above because as you see in these clues below, I said
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Originally Posted by BadNick
...This place was built for the same purpose it might be used today...
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and I'm sure you'll all agree that a glacier doesn't fit "This place was built.."
As opposed to a building, which is built; thus I gave the clue
Quote:
Originally Posted by BadNick
....Look for a building on a hilltop that has some superlative significance and I'll be there waiting for you all.
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photo by Benjamin Hull
So I was tempted to string you guys out a bit longer. But this ski lodge built on top of
the mountain and near the glacier is the highest ski resort in the world, and the only
ski resort in Bolivia, at an altitude of 17,785 feet / 5421 meters...so it's even tough
breathing normally up there.
This equatorial ski area is the world’s highest lift served ski area as well as the northernmost
ski area in South America.
It overlooks Lake Titicaca and the city La Paz
However, the glacier that once surrounded the lodge with copious amount of snow is
melting fast. Scientists say that glaciers are increasingly receding throughout the Andes
but the Chacaltaya’s melting has been especially quick due to climate change.
Attributing the melting to the growing emission of Green House gases causing global
warming, scientists are speculating that Bolivia’s skiing tradition could be in the
extinct list when Chacaltaya’s modest ski run may disappear forever in a few years.
