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Deep in the Chilean rainforest sits a magical hotel, aptly named the Magic Mountain Hotel. Living up to its fairytale-like name, the hotel is shaped like a volcano, covered in moss, and has a ...

Chile wasn’t a country I had given much thought to before visiting. To be fair, I didn’t know much about it beyond its famously long and skinny shape and the fact that it shares Patagonia with ...

In April 2012 Robert Jasper, Jörn Heller and Ralf Gantzhorn carried out the first ascent of the Shark's Fin Ridge. The route climbs the west face of Monte Giordano (1517m, Chile), a mountain which in ...

There is currently a gigantic camera being built in the mountains of Chile, in the foothills of the Andes, that will be like nothing we've ever seen before. While the new iPhone 6S camera may have ...

Torres Del Avellano, Patagonia, Chile: Paul Swail starting up the huge East Face of the south Avellano tower, climbed with Will Sim, John Crook and John McCune Planetmountain.com is a site about ...

After a six-week ocean voyage, a week spent waiting to offload, and another week trekking through the mountains, the first major component of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) has arrived ...