Traditions shaken by global warming
“I remember my grandfather used to tell me ‘Boy, these snowcapped peaks you see won’t exist years from now.’ I thought he was exaggerating and I didn’t believe him… How did he know that the snowfall would stop existing, that someday it would end? Thinking about that still surprises me.” Recalling a prophecy from his childhood, a young man from the indigenous Aymara population in Bolivia shared his memories in 2022 with Wilson Poma, an Aymara researcher, for the study entitled Vanishing Ice, Vanishing Cultures? carried out in the Milluni valley, near the Chacaltaya glacier.