The study analyzed satellite data that measured small changes in height of the surface of the ice and snow on the continent. While it appears that ice mass is growing at the moment, scientists note that, within a few decades, that trend could be reversed.
She is Europe's oldest living person and has attributed her longevity to eating several raw eggs a day. The oldest person ever to have lived was the French woman Jeanne Calment who died aged 122 years and 164 days, according to Guinness World Records.
The oldest human remains were discovered in Ethiopia by a team of archeologists in 1967, and were originally estimated to be only about 130,000 years old. In 2005, more sophisticated dating techniques put the human skulls at about 200,000 years, confirming that they are the oldest known human fossils.