A rescue worker (NOT with the Red Cross) helps a woman in Arequipa whose llamas have died of extreme cold (Reuters)
I was on Twitter tonight when I learned from actress Qorianka that the death toll in the Andes due to extreme cold is up to 250 children, reports the BBC’s Dan Collyns:
Almost 250 children under the age of five [...]
Tags: children in Andes·deaths·extreme cold
Dog at Yungay National Cemetery; Mount Huascaran in background (photo by Barbara Drake 2009)
Last Sunday, El Fotógrafo, El Híjo and I toured the cemetery above the buried town of Yungay, about 30 miles north of Huaraz. We were with a group of scientists and historians taking part in a glacier adaptation conference, and there couldn’t have [...]
Tags: avalanche·dogs in Peru·Yungay