These extraordinary experiences are available to travellers today. But each of them is, to varying degrees, threatened in some way, whether by urbanisation, climate change or simple human neglect. As the world's leaders meet in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference to discuss what can be done to turn the tide against global warming, we select the tourism bucket list regulars that may disappear, some of early as within the next few years, unless action is taken.
1. Touching the snows of Kilimanjaro
Back in 1938, Ernest Hemingway published his short story, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, set on the wintry slopes of this magnificent peak in Tanzania. In the decades since Hemingway's work appeared, the situation has changed irrevocably. In just a few short years, nobody will capture pictures like the above.
More than 85 per cent of the ice cover on Africa’s highest mountain disappeared in the century up until 2011, and it’s only a question of time before the rest melts away too. The latest prediction puts 2020 as the last time glacier ice will be there.
Climbing the mountain is a wonderful challenge, as Telegraph writers have discovered over the years. But it won’t be the same when – and not if – the familiar icy crown is gone.
See our guide to mountain climbing holidays on Mont Blanc, Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro
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By Jolyon Attwooll
Explore Africa with the Telegraph Travel Collection>
Picture: AP/ FOTOLIA
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