Andes

The Andes Mountains is the longest mountain range in the world above the sea. They are over 7,200 kilometres and go past 7 countries, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. Only the Himalayas is taller than the Andes, but Andes is still the world’s longest mountain Range. Andes is also home to more than 50 volcanoes, one is the world’s highest volcano above sea level, on the Chilean-Argentina border, this measures up to 6,893m tall. The people around the Andes were mostly

In the Andes Mountains of Bolivia, in a far, tucked-away corner lay a beautiful green field. This place had a family living on it who were very hard workers, but they also were very poor. There was a middle aged man and women living on this farm. Along with them they had a son. The father and his son would get up just before the crack of dawn and would work until lunch and then keep working until dusk. For all this hard work they made very little money. The family could not afford an education for

The Andes Survivors live to tell a courageous tale of what it takes to survive after losing all hope of rescue. On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan rugby team, along with friends and relatives, flew across the Andes mountains to Chile. Expecting to arrive safely to their destination, passengers aboard Flight 571 crashed due to a pilot’s navigation error. When the pilot notified air controllers of his position, they cleared him to begin descension. However, the location of the aircraft was misjudged

Life and Death in the Andes Travel Writing Assignment Kim MacQuarrie, the author of Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries is a writer, a four-time emmy award winning documentary filmmaker, anthropologist, and the author. MacQuarrie spent time living in Peru and consequently wrote four books on the country, and the events that took place and significant figures who resided there. With a large amount of time being spent in Latin America, he was able to view

In the book Revolution in the Andes: The Age of Túpac Amaru, Sergio Serulnikov highlights the rebellions that broke out in the region between Cusco and Potosí in Perú during the early 1780s. From 1780-1782, the indigenous people in the Andes rebelled against imperial Spain. This was one of the largest rebellions to ever happen in the Americas. This fairly short book consists of seventeen chapters with titles that allude to the central theme in each. Serulnikov’s main argument hinges on the idea

dream last night, a tremendous premonition. I saw green fields and flowers. I could smell the grass.” (Read 225) is a quote taken from the book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read. This quote is just one example of the hope generated in the story. Alive is about a Uruguayan Rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes Mountains while on their way to Chile. This story tells of the struggle that the 45 on board attempt to overcome by doing whatever they can to survive for over two

The Survival in the Andes Leadership, Sacrifice and Hope, the three things that saved the sixteen survivors. “ Our group was always united. When the spirits of one went down, the rest made sure to raise them” (Read 362). The survivors unified as a group to act as role models for each other. Alive, The Story of the Andes Survivors is all about the strength it took for the survivors to guide one another and to accomplish the mission to survive. When the plane crashed two boys took control and

Although many glaciers are retreating in the Andes, some glaciers have shown a positive mass budget. Schaefer et al. (2014) showed a progressive surface mass balance from 1975 to 2011 in the South Patagonian Icefield. Masiokas et al. (2009) also noted glacier growths in certain portions of SPI during the first half of the past millennium. Sakakibara and Sugiyama (2014), in their analysis of 26 calving glaciers from 1984 to 2011, noticed small advancements in two termini of the Pío XI glacier. Espizua

Synopsis ‘Climate, tectonics and the morphology of the Andes’ (2001) reports on Montgomery, Balco and Willett’s study of the Andes which investigates whether and how climate patterns influence the morphology of the Andes. It begins by acknowledging that the type and location of plate boundaries determines their presence or absence. The issue is whether that alone determines the evolution of individual mountain systems. They conclude that it is a combination of tectonics and climate that influences

and it is located along the ring of fire. Chile is a mountainous because most of their land has the mountain ranges of the Andes. The tip of Chile is called Tierra del Fuego and it is located near Antarctica. To the east of Chile is Argentina to the north Peru and to the northeast is Bolivia. In Chile they are a lot of volcanoes most of the volcanoes are located on the Andes. 80 percent of Chile's land is covered by mountains. A lot of the Chileans live along these mountains or even on them. Chileans