Freeskier reports: Adventure is guaranteed on the roof of the Andes WORDS • Ben Hoiness | PHOTOS • Fredrik Marmaster We started planning this trip a year ago after seeing some photos in the American Alpine Journal. We were hoping to explore Bolivia’s Cordillera Real range—a 125-kilometer-long stretch of densely glaciated granite peaks largely unexplored by skiers. Our group…
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1943, La Paz city, a superb video!
A Julien Bryan production: Great socio economic display, and during WWII which was not even mentioned … Loved to see trams as public transportation … like train service, these days, both were discontinued and that is a real shame!
Bernardo Guarachi: ‘I’m proud, I’ve fulfilled with Bolivia’ – Bernardo Guarachi: ‘Estoy orgulloso, he cumplido con Bolivia’
Marcelo Avendaño reports for La Razon: Bernardo Guarachi: ‘I’m proud, I’ve fulfilled with Bolivia’ The mountaineer fulfilled his dream and with Bolivia: he made summit in the Seven Summits of the world when climbing the Vinson Massif last week. Bolivian mountaineer Bernardo Guarachi fulfilled his dream and with Bolivia: he climbed the summit of the…
Grown At High Altitudes, Bolivia’s Wines Are Rising Stars
John Otis writes for OPB: A vineyard in Tarija, Bolivia, the center of the country’s wine industry. A growing number of wineries here are improving their techniques, ramping up production and starting to export, as global interest in Bolivia’s award-winning wines grows.Insights/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Bolivia is better known for snow-capped mountains than sun-drenched vineyards,…
Laguna Verde – Lake’s emerald green waters
Atlas Obscura reports: Laguna Verde This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim. Laguna Verde lies in the extreme southwest of Bolivia, not far from the border with Chile. Depending on the strength of the winds, which whip up the water, minerals, and sediments within…
Chacaltaya contributed to man’s trip to the moon
ANF reports in Opinion: A space observatory from that mountain would have made Bolivia participate in the Apollo 11 mission, according to scientific articles and the director of the planetarium. The observations of “clouds of dust” of the lunar orbit that were made from the Chacaltaya mountain were part of the preliminary studies of space…
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