On the rise is the popularity of going on vacation to ecologically sensitive spots such as melting glaciers or endangered animal viewing before it/they disappear(s). Not to be behind in the trend, The New York Times recent Explorer section was about climbing up Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro before the icecap melts for good. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately the author/climber saw and had to get through lots of snow, therefore unable to emote about the barren ice-free landscape, which in fact his plane ride there is helping to melt. It's great to read about all these "disaster tourists" going to Greenland or Madagascar before all the ice melts/animals are eaten but I never see anything about how they are helping to actually save these things before they are gone...Read the full story: On Africa's roof
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