 Near the Equator , ice is still found in East Africa , the Andes of South America and New Guinea . The retreat of equatorial glaciers has been documented via maps and photographs covering the period from the late 1800s to nearly the present . 99 @.@ 64 % of tropical glaciers are in Andean mountains of South America , 0 @.@ 25 % on the African glaciers of Rwenzori , Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro , and 0 @.@ 11 % in the Irian Jaya region in New Guinea . 
