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‘The Mountain that Eats Men.’ This Bolivian town is the only place in the world where you can legally buy dynamite
The Bolivian mining city of Potosí is the only ... red-colored “Cerro Rico” (literally “Rich Mountain” in English) — so named because of the vast wealth it once brought to the city.
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From the Pollera to Aconcagua: The Cholitas Escaladoras Brought Their Story to UNESCO
From UNESCO’s Division for Gender Equality, Begoña Lasagabaster highlighted: “The Cholitas embody the principles of the Pact ...
I hiked a mountain in the Andes to celebrate my 40th birthday. The hallucinations and violent vomiting that followed weren't part of the plan.
To celebrate her 40th birthday, the author wanted to hike a mountain in the Bolivian Andes. Hallucinations and vomiting weren ...
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Bolivia’s cholita climbers dream of conquering Everest in skirts
REUTERS/Claudia Morales Julia Quispe Tincuta remembers the first time she reached the peak of Bolivia's Huayna Potosi mountain, where she and other Aymara Indigenous women had long worked cooking ...
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To break stereotypes that only men climb mountains, the Cholita Climbers scale Bolivia's highest peaks in skirts
In 2015, a group of 11 Aymara Indigenous women set out to climb the mountains of Bolivia. The group, known as Cholita Climbers, make their ascent in traditional Aymaran clothes. They teamed up ...
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This is how the world's most expensive fibers are made
From herding communities in the Bolivian mountains to lace experts in northern France, here's how some of the world's most expensive fabrics are made. Here in northern Bolivia, a kilogram of this ...