Bolivia, mountain pass winding through Chacaltaya Mountain
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- Created Date
- 1954
- Description
Bolivia: Chacaltaya Ski Lodge
The Chacaltaya Ski Lodge was established by Club Andino Boliviano in 1939. It was the highest ski run on Earth at 17,785 feet high. Global warming had caused the glacier to melt by 2009, six years sooner than scientists had predicted.
Bolivia's abandoned ski resort: A sign of droughts to come? (December 11, 2016). BBC News.; Huge Bolivian glacier disappears. (May 12, 2009). BBC News.; Farewell to a melting glacier. (April 3, 2007). BBC News.; Bolivia's Only Ski Resort is Facing a Snowless Future. (February 2, 2007). The New York Times.; Samuel in the Clouds [Documentary Film]. (2016). Clin D'Oeil Films. Film by Pieter Van Eecke.
Grayscale
Forman Safety Negatives, Box 24
- Creator
Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- Harrison Forman Collection - Safety Negatives
Harrison Forman Collection
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - South America
NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library’s Historic Film Collections II - Monochrome Acetate Negatives and Motion Picture Film - Location
- South America
Latin America and Caribbean
Bolivia
La Paz (department)
Nevado Chacaltaya (mountain); Andes (mountain system) - Type
- image
- Format
- Safety film negatives
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. Bolivia, mountain pass winding through Chacaltaya Mountain. 1954. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/6005. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978, (1954) Bolivia, mountain pass winding through Chacaltaya Mountain. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/6005
- MLA citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/6005>.