Snow-capped Kilimanjaro
Personal memory by Alicic S.
1988 CE • Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro was snow-capped and we needed crampons to get to the top in summer. That's gone.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022-2023
Image: Takashi Muramatsu via Flickr, Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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