Kilimanjaro's glaciers shrink and crack as scientists warn Africa's highest mountain may soon be ice free

The peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's highest free-standing mountain, may soon be ice free, scientists warn.

Between 1912 and 2011, the mass of ice on the summit of the 19,341ft dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania decreased by more than 85 per cent, say researchers with Nasa's Earth Observatory.

Kimberly Casey, a glaciologist based at the U.S. space agency's Goddard Space Flight Centre, who visited the mountain earlier this year, also noticed Kilimanjaro's north ice field had separated.

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