Video by Alana Danieu, Carleton College (Team Guanaco) As our time in Patagonia began to wrap up, we returned to base camp for one last week to take exams and complete our final research papers. While we were all excited…

Video and Text by Maggie Williams, University of Vermont (Team Huemul) Photos by Adam Spencer We left Cochrane on November 15th for what would be our final big excursion of our semester in Chile. We spent our time researching the…

By Becca Holdhusen, Middlebury College (Team Guanaco) We faced the morning of November 9th with silence, hugs, and tears as we all absorbed the weight of the election and embraced the end of the chaos of the season. Team Huemul…

By Anna Nagel (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) “Anna,” I said, kissing the cheek of my host father, the standard Chilean greeting. That, along with how to drink maté, was about the extent of my knowledge of the culture of…

Written by Mike Siggins (Westminster College) All of us came to Patagonia because we love mountains. We love looking at mountains, climbing mountains, and learning about the life that lives in their snows and forests. We brought with us to…