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 [...]
250 Children Dead of Cold in Andes: Death Toll Keeps Climbing
July 16th, 2009 · 18 Comments · Peru's Andes Mountains
Tags: children in Andes·deaths·extreme cold
Cemetery Dog, Buried City of Yungay, Peru
July 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Animals in Peru, Climate Change & Disappearing Glaciers, Earthquakes
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 [...]
Tags: avalanche·dogs in Peru·Yungay