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  1. Huayna Potosi – The Day I Nearly Died

    Blog: Viva Latin America! - 11 May 2010

    I’m not even sure what I was thinking.  Presumably my thoughts went along the lines of, “Well, we’ve climbed up mountains before.  High mountains, at that.  Just how much harder could it really be?”  Turns out that scaling a snow-covered mountain in the dead of night with ropes, crampons and an ice-pick is really very [...]

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  2. Cycling Down The Death Road – La Paz, Bolivia

    Blog: Viva Latin America! - 9 May 2010

    Let’s just bear in mind that this is one of the main things that people come to La Paz for.  In case you’ve no idea what I’m talking about, the bike ride down the “Death Road” – well, it’s fairly self-explanatory, isn’t it?  But I’ll give it a go, anyway.  An hour or so outside [...]

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  3. Failing to die on the Death Road

    Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 16 October 2009

    There are certain things one does when traveling that it’s probably best my mum doesn’t know I’m doing them til afterwards. Cycling down the World’s Most Dangerous Road (© the Inter-American Development Bank), aka the Death Road, is one of them. The road gets its reputation from the days when it used to be the main [...]

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