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The mines at La Rinconada, a bitter-cold, mercury-contaminated pueblo clinging to the glaciered mountainside, are “artisanal”: small, unregulated, and grossly unsafe. To stave off disaster, the miners propitiate the mountain deities with tiny liquor...

The Muckle Hart of Benmore. Shot by Charles St. John in Scotland on the 1st. October 1833. Sunday.-This evening, Malcolm, the shepherd of the shealing at the foot of Benmore, returning from church, reported his having crossed in the hill a track of...

Previous Post: Getting Real High in Bolivia – La Paz, Lake Titicaca, and The Cordillera Real Over the past decade I have had the good fortune – as well as the time and fitness and available cash! – to trek and climb South America’s Andes Mountains on...

Well, not quite all of it, as it happens… Our original intention was to close the loop around this compact but rugged Andean range – a tight knot of snow-capped mountains lying south of the Cordillera Blanca, known to climbing literature...

Two weeks walking in the Victorian, Australia alps - Bright, Australia Bright, Australia We've organised to do 13 days walking in the Victorian Alps with a group of 19 from the NPA (National Parks Association). The group are all experienced walkers...