diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 53bf2a2c974..81232b7716a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-1994  Master will lose hlog entries while splitting if region has
                empty oldlogfile.log (Lars George via Stack)
    HBASE-2022  NPE in housekeeping kills RS
+   HBASE-2034  [Bulk load tools] loadtable.rb calls an undefined method
+               'descendingIterator' (Ching-Shen Chen via Stack)
    HBASE-2033  Shell scan 'limit' is off by one
    HBASE-2040  Fixes to group commit
    HBASE-2047  Example command in the "Getting Started" 
diff --git a/bin/loadtable.rb b/bin/loadtable.rb
index a0e841f9f21..bf64232aa0b 100644
--- a/bin/loadtable.rb
+++ b/bin/loadtable.rb
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ htd = HTableDescriptor.new(tableName)
 htd.addFamily(hcd)
 previouslastkey = HConstants::EMPTY_START_ROW
 count = map.size()
-for i in map.descendingIterator()
+for i in map.descendingKeySet().iterator()
   tuple = map.get(i)
   startkey = i
   count = count - 1