The Lewis Glacier once covered one of Mount Kenya's slopes. The imposing mass of ice visible in archive photos has now been reduced to just two blocks -- the biggest only a few dozen metres wide.

KENYA - The "very, very beautiful" Lewis Glacier on Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak, is now little more than "small patches of ice and snow", says veteran guide Charles Kibaki Muchiri.

The Lewis Glacier once covered one of Mount Kenya's slopes. The imposing mass of ice visible in archive photos has now been reduced to just two blocks -- the biggest only a few dozen metres wide.