Here are a couple of astonishing views

The Difference in Seven Years

"The snow cap that formed 11,000 years ago shrank by 80 percent during the past century. The Landsat satellite captured the images of Kilimanjaro shown above on February 17 1993 (upper) and February 21 2000 (lower)."

Black soot discussion is nothing new. Here is an article from April 2003