ice-capped

This area, called the Western Slope, is effectively cleaved off from the rest of Colorado - the ice-capped mountains acting as both an ideological and physical barrier.

“Mountain ranges so high and remote, no human had ever stepped on their soil. Caves so vast, no living soul had ever marveled at their crystals. His mother, Earth’s, ice-capped peaks glimmered gold in the glare of the fire snake’s father.”

Those who make their homes near the Cordillera Blanca, the ice-capped “white range” that looms above Huaraz, have always recognized this risk.

Góngora said she studied old maps of Chile for months in coming up with the first tattoo she designed for Boric nearly a decade ago: a map of the ice-capped islands and labyrinthine fjords near where both grew up in Punta Arenas, at the tip of the South American continent.

The melting of the African glaciers has echoed similar trends on ice-capped peaks in places as distant as Peru and Tibet, and it provides one of the clearest signs that a global warming trend in the last 50 years has exceeded typical climate shift.