http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/EGU2011-13852.pdf Late Pleistocene to Early Holocen Glacial Landforms of Yushan Area, Taiwan] As recently as seventeen thousand years ago, permanent ice caps existed throughout Taiwan's highest mountains and extended owing to the wet climate down to 2800 meters ; whereas currently the nearest glaciers to the Tropic of Cancer are in Mexico on the Iztaccíhuatl volcano.