Washington's Hinman Glacier almost VANISHES after thousands of years

The largest glacier in Washington's Mount Rainier and Glacier Peak mountain ranges is almost gone as glaciologists warn that half of the planets' ice caps are next.

The Hinman Glacier, which lies on the Cascade Mountains, has shrunk to 0.01 square-miles, just 4 percent of what it was in 1958, Nichols College glaciologist Mauri Pelto reported.

'It's completely disappeared,' Pelto told of the melting glacier. 'This was the biggest glacier in this part of the mountain range — it was exceptional.'

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