We were an hour outside of Putaendo, when the yerba maté started to take effect. It was June and deep mid winter. All that afternoon we had driven north towards the sun, which now was on its low drawling descent into the Pacific Ocean.
Articles by Matthew Maynard
At 17,800 feet, the Andes Infernal race in Chile, South America, is by far the highest race on the Sky Running calendar and the longest competitive event at such a sustained altitude anywhere on the planet. The 51k loop...
Matt Maynard explores how running can be grounding, in his new unfamiliar surround-ings of South America
Volcano Orsono sits brooding on the northern fringes of Chilean Patagonia. Glaciers hang preposterously from its upper, impenetrable flanks, occasionally calving off and trundling down the lower skirt into the surroundin...
At 80 years of age, Elisa crossed the finish line of ‘El Cruce’earlier this month. She had run for three days, crossing from Argentina to Chile, through the Andes mountains.
When I was much younger, but still old enough to know better, we used to play a game involving bicycles and trespassing on private land. We would head out from…