Chile

A 4,300km ribbon of country that runs from the driest desert on Earth to shattered Patagonian ice fields — sandboard a dune in the morning and be roped up on a glacier a thousand kilometres south a few days later.

2 Mountaineering & Climbing lines

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Rock Climbing · Los Lagos region

Big wall climbing, Cochamó Valley

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Granite walls up to 1,000m tall in a temperate rainforest valley reached only on foot or horseback — nicknamed "the Yosemite of South America," with multi-day big wall routes and no road access to shorten a rescue if something goes wrong high on the face.

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Mountaineering · Atacama region, Chile–Argentina border

Ojos del Salado high-altitude expedition

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The world's highest volcano and second-highest peak in the Americas at 6,893m, climbed via multi-day acclimatization camps across a landscape so barren and Mars-like that NASA has tested rovers here — altitude, not technical difficulty, is what ends most attempts.

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