Canadian ice climber Will Gadd returned to Mount Kilimanjaro this year after his first visit in 2014, in a race against time to repeat the climbs on the iconic route before the ice melts away permanently as a result of global warming.

In some places, thin fins remain where large glaciers once stood.

Gadd visited the site in February aiming to become the last person to climb the route first established by Reinhold Messner in 1978, while also wishing to see the effects of climate change in person.

Using GPS mapping, the team found out that the glacier fins have lost just under 70 percent of their ice mass since 2014.

(Production: Mussab Al-Khairalla)

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