Painted Peruvian Andes Bring Back Glaciers

VIDEO: See How Painting Mountains in Peru is Slowly Bringing Back Lost Glaciers

12/05/2011

Painted Peruvian Andes Bring Back Glaciers

When we first learned about Eduardo Gold's plan to paint the Peruvian Andes white in order to deflect heat back into the atmosphere and bring back the shrinking glaciers, we weren't 100% certain whether the guy was in his right mind. But nearly 18 months later, it seems that he might have been on to something after all. CNN recently hiked with the engineer and his crew to roughly 16,400 feet above sea level - where the team has already painted about 50,000 square feet of rock white with a mixture of lime, water and sand....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/video-painted-mountains-in-peru-are-slowly-bringing-back-lost-glaciers/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

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Painted Peruvian Andes Bring Back Glaciers

When we first learned about Eduardo Gold's plan to paint the Peruvian Andes white in order to deflect heat back into the atmosphere and bring back the shrinking glaciers, we weren't 100% certain whether the guy was in his right mind. But nearly 18 months later, it seems that he might have been on to something after all. CNN recently hiked with the engineer and his crew to roughly 16,400 feet above sea level - where the team has already painted about 50,000 square feet of rock white with a mixture of lime, water and sand....

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