stackyFACTSBolivia's Chacaltaya was once the highest ski resort in the world, boasting a rope tow powered by an old car engine.
Bolivia's Chacaltaya was once the highest ski resort in the world, boasting a rope tow powered by an old car engine. Then climate change stepped in, and by 2009, the 18,000-year-old glacier completely melted away, leaving a barren pile of rocks. The winding, terrifying road up the mountain reopened anyway, catering to a depressing new niche: climate-grief tourists who climb 17,000 feet just to look at an abandoned ski lodge sitting on dry dirt.
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