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Across The Andes By Frog
By Jon on 16/08/2001 15:11:00
..and the Amazon too on 3,700 miles South American coast to coast challenge
Across the Andes by frog... You can't miss the opportunity for aheadline like that... It's a serious story though, really.According to the Outsidemag.com web site, veteran Frenchultra-runner Serge Girard is planning to run 3,700 miles across South
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Llama Dung Purifies Andes Water
By Jon on 30/01/2002 13:24:31
Scientists are using cameloid droppings to purify Bolivian water, sounds like a load of...
The water supply of La Paz in the Bolivian Andes is, apparently,being filtered through llama droppings.The water is contaminated with iron and cadmium from an abandonedmine and filters made from the cameloid crap provide the idealenvironment
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First Chicken Ascent Rocks Andes
By Jon on 18/07/2000 15:51:00
Momentous news as a live chicken scales Pisco free-range style
News of a momentous first from Peru's Cordillera Blanca where alive chicken has summited Pisco (5752 metres). Note the 'live' part,since chickens in dead and sandwich forms have made it to varioushigh summits over the years.The chicken was part of a guided group of five led by Ky...
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Climbers Mugged For Boots At 17,000 Feet...
By Jon on 03/11/2004 10:49:46
A party of climbers and tourists have apparently been robbed at gunpoint high in the Bolivian Andes according to reports in the Mirror.
preparing to tackle higher mountains in the Cordillera Real.There are stunning views across the Cordillera Real and ofneighbouring 6,000 metre Huayna Potosi.Bolivia - dubbed the Tibet of the Andes - is an exceptionallybeautiful country, but also a very poor
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Cordillera Blanca Access Under Threat
By Jon on 07/10/2005 11:28:22
Proposed new regulations may restrict the access of trekkers and climbers to the most popular area of the Peruvian Andes, the BMC is urging mountaineers to make their objections known.
Some worrying news from the British Mountaineering Council, whichtells us that plans to introduce new, restrictive regulations in theCordillera Blanca of Peru are in the pipeline.The proposed rules would cover the entire Huascaran National Park,at the moment a mecca for climbers ...
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El Niño! It's Back (Maybe)
By Jon on 15/01/2002 11:01:02
Scientists say that a new El Niño could be on the way. The last one screwed up the climbing conditions big time, so Andes fans, watch out
This spring could bring the return of the El Niñophenomenon to South America say US scientists with potential knock-oneffects for mountaineers in the Andes, says OUTDOORSmagic.According to Vernon Kousky of the US National Oceanic and
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Get South America Updates By E-mail
By Jon on 23/11/2000 09:16:00
Check what's up in the Andes the easy way
alternative activitiesincluding a huge amount of stuff on trekking and climbing in theAndes.Membership is 40 dollars US, which is a relatively small amount ifyou're out there for several months and gives access to the mainattractions: comfy club houses
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The Friday Matinee
By Jon on 01/06/2007 12:28:22
Hot and cold this week with the Iceman, the Andes and some warm rock :-)
If it's Friday it must be time for the Friday Matinee, the idealway to count down to the weekend.First, you might have read our story about Wim Hof, theIceman who managed to reach 24,000 feet plus on Everest wearing justa pair of shorts. He's also run a half-marathon barefoot int...
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The Week In Pics!
By Jon on 12/11/2007 13:39:37
From the Alps to the Andes via Brecon and Kinlochleven - take a trip round the OM Gallery
.Condoriri in the Bolivian Andes by Dave StoneAnd Nepal...Another OMer who's been off travelling is George Robertson. We were particularly taken with this atmospheric shot of Lhtose clearing in the aftermath of a storm.Lhotse after the storm by George Robertson.Mont Blanc
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Void Film In Production
By Jon on 27/03/2003 12:23:00
After shooting in the Andes and Alps last year, the action drama of Touching The Void is starting to generate advance publicity already. Sounds good.
The forthcoming film of Joe Simpson's Andean epic, Touching TheVoid, gets a name check in today's Guardian Arts section as part of anew wave of feature-length documentaries hitting the big screen sometime soon.Simpson seems to have flogged the film rights to his mega-sellingbook ...
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