San Antonio de los Cobres

San Antonio de los Cobres – San Pedro de Atacama: Paso Sico

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The journey to San Antonio de los Cobres was just the prelude to a bigger challenge: the Paso Sico. The challenge lies, on the one hand, in the altitude (over 4,500 meters), and on the other, in the road (practically all unpaved) and the lack of infrastructure (there’s practically nothing for over 200 km, and not much at all for over 350 km). But we’d somewhat overlooked the main challenge: the wind (which almost always comes from the west—meaning headwinds). […]

Auf dem Weg nach Olacapato

Salta – San Antonio de los Cobres: Our first 4’000m pass

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As mentioned in the last article, we met Heidi from Switzerland and Jeremias from Liechtenstein in Salta. They’ve been traveling through South America for quite some time and had planned a similar route from Salta as we had. So it made sense that we’d continue on together. And so we left Salta (a good 1,200 meters above sea level) together. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that they were considerably fitter than we were and therefore traveled faster (which we already […]