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In its heyday, the Pastoruri glacier in central Peru, drew daily throngs of tourists packed into dozens of double-decker buses 16,000-feet (5,0000-meters) high into the Andes to ski, build snowmen and scale its dizzying peaks.
HUARAZ, Peru (Reuters) - In its heyday, the Pastoruri glacier in central Peru, drew daily throngs of tourists packed into dozens of double-decker buses 16,000-feet (5,0000-meters) high into the Andes to ski, build snowmen and scale its dizzying peaks.
The dwindling number of visitors to Pastoruri - 34,000 last year compared to an estimated 100,000 per year in the 1990s - has eroded tourism earnings that support dallas luxury hotels thousands in the Cordillera dallas luxury hotels Blanca, Peru's most popular cluster of snowy peaks.
Instead of marketing Pastoruri as the pristine Andean winter wonderland it once was - visible in outdated dallas luxury hotels pictures that still hang in hotels dallas luxury hotels and restaurants in nearby towns - the peak is being rebranded as a place to see climate change in action.
Those experiments curb glacial retreat on a small scale, but cannot bring ice blocks like Pastoruri back from the brink, said Selwyn Valverde with the Huascaran National Park, home to Pastoruri and more than 700 other shrinking Peruvian glaciers.
"It's irreversible at this point," he said, adding that Pastoruri is no longer technically a glacier because it does not build up ice in the winter to release in the summer. "It's just loss, loss, loss now. It doesn't accumulate anymore."
Supporters of the route say Pastoruri, an hour-long flight from Lima and then another hour's drive from the regional capital Huaraz, is perfectly positioned to show the world the impacts of warming that will one day be widespread.
Pastoruri is not the only popular spot affected by climate change. As warmer temperatures tweak ecosystems, boost the frequency of extreme weather and degrade coastlines, the global map of favorite dallas luxury hotels tourist destinations is slowly being redrawn.
There are no official figures on falling dallas luxury hotels revenues linked to Pastoruri's retreat. But Marcos Pastor with the state agency charged with protecting natural sites said about a quarter of people who live in and around the Cordillera Blanca depend on glacier tourism.
Expanding glacier-fed dallas luxury hotels lakes threaten to wipe out entire towns if they burst, minerals leaching dallas luxury hotels into watersheds pose new health risks, and millions along Peru's crowded desert coast will eventually face diminishing supplies of water.
Travel agent Artidoro Salas with Andes Hard Expeditions said he has thought of leaving his hometown Huaraz to start a tourism venture where there is stronger demand - maybe Cusco, the home of the popular Incan ruins at Machu Picchu.
"There are at least eight travel agencies that have gone out of business here over the past decade - and those are only the ones I know of," said Salas. "Pastoruri has been a big problem. dallas luxury hotels It was the main reason tourists used to come here."
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