The Death Road, the most dangerous road in the world!

Posted in Bolivia on May 31st, 2009 with 5 Comments »

Most people may have heard of this road, which starts in La Paz, Bolivia, descending 3.450 meters down into the Yungas, within only 64km. It is an unpaved gravel road that was wedged out of the mountain in the 1930s by Paraguayan prisoners of war.
Nobody knows how many of them died during the construction, but [...]

Torres del Paine 2

Posted in Chile on May 22nd, 2009 with 3 Comments »

Day 3
Today we’re climbing the French Valley; the ascent is pretty strong so it helps having left the backpacks at the camp. It’s a narrow and elongated valley surrounded by steep bicolour mountains (limestone white and basaltic black). A glacier watches us on our left during the entire ascent and from time to time we [...]