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Desiree Le Mire ran into the cave, anxious to explore, tempted by the legends of Inca gold. Harry Lamar and his brother Paul had no choice but to follow. After all, they could not let the beautiful dancer enter the black depths alone. Others lived there, however, protecting the gold of their ancestors, others now misshapen after generations of living underground. That was why no one who entered the cave ever emerged into daylight. But no one who had entered was as beautiful as Desiree - or as determined as the Lamars.

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell...

This book is the fifth in the series "The Blonde around the world, or I did it my way".

Pedaling hard for thirteen months, eco adventurer Kate Rawles cycled the length of the Andes on an eccentric bicycle she built herself. The Life Cycle charts her mission to find out why biodiversity is so important, what's happening to it, and what can be done to protect it. From the Pacific Ocean to rainforests and salt flats, Kate learns that armadillos can cross rivers by holding their breath, that Colombia has more species of birds than North America and Europe combined, and that in threatening species and ecosystems, we're tearing down our own life support system.

Un podcast nómada, que sigue los caminos del folklore en América Latina, desde la pampa argentina hasta la cordillera peruana, pasando por el altiplano boliviano y el desierto chileno. Vayamos al encuentro de la gente que canta y baila la milonga, el chamamé, la zamba, la cueca, la chacarera, el malambo, el carnavalito, el taquirari, el caporal, la morenada, la diablada, la manirena, la zamacueca, y muchos otros universos de canto, música y danza que crecen en esta tierra de pampas, serranías, quebrada y punas, exactamente de la misma manera que lo hacen también el maíz, la palta, la ...