Friday, 23 October 2026
International edition · English
Americas
News, routes, wildlife, plants and mountain and nature guides in Chile.
5 articles
Where a human struggles to breathe, some animals live, hunt and breed. A mouse on the summit of an Andean volcano, a spider above 6,000 metres and a goose that can fly over the Himalaya.
Some rise on a glacier in Tibet, others at a lost spring in the Andes whose title two mountains dispute. Ten rivers that are still wild, told from their source.
More than a third of humanity cannot see the Milky Way from home. These are the places where the sky is still as it was centuries ago, and how to make the most of them even without a telescope.
There are still corners of the planet where human presence is minimal and natural processes set the pace: active volcanoes, deltas in the middle of the desert, immense ice fields and rainforests still to be explored.
Glaciers, turquoise lakes and the three granite towers at sunrise. The W is one of the most spectacular treks in the world, but you need to book well in advance and respect the Patagonian wind.
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