In this picture, Cotopaxi looks like it has three distinct peaks; but that effect is provided by the base of the ginormous glacier on top. The glacier is actually melting at an accellerated rate of 4 meters per month. Our guide told us that experts are pretty sure it's due to global warming, and not due to the fact that the glacier sits on top of an active vocano that, based on it's history, is due for a very violent erruption within the next twenty years, if not tomorrow...We'll see.
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