The Andes
When you climb up to those peaks, far off in the distance you see mountains that are even higher yet — mountains surrounded by dark forests, terrible and mysterious mountains impossible to climb.
The Andes of Pablo Corral
Foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa for the book ‘Andes’, published in 2001 by National Geographic.
Balcony of the Clouds
Sometimes when I need to go back to the house of my beginnings, the house that is center and point of reference, the place where identity is formed, I travel to a place in the mountains that is far above the clouds. There I forget for a moment the daily struggle, the fear of death…
Questions without an answer
How does the last orange taste?
What becomes of an island that knows no poetry?
How much is a tear worth in the desert?
From Patagonia to the Caribbean
South America is a continent of geographic extremes. There we find the largest tropical rain forest on the planet and the driest desert, and on its west an entire coastline, from Patagonia to the shores of the Caribbean, is dominated by the Andes.
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