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Last Frontiers Newsletter #3 June 2004
As promised we are back again with some news and updates from the travels of the Last Frontiers team. This newsletter has taken a bit more time to put together than usual as we have all been away so much!In this edition: News from Last Frontiers Jill in Peru and Chile Tracy in Brazil Alison in... Read more»
In the jungles of Venezuela, the anaconda awaits (Simon Hacker)
It can’t be much fun being Eunectes murinus. When you’re not being eyed up as a supplier for next autumn’s range of handbags, some macho tourist is hoping you’ll play a cameo role in his holiday snaps. No wonder they have a notoriously nasty temper.Tourists and scary animals are getting increasingly... Read more»
A handful that just might be more than dust (Nick Gordon, January 2004)
Nick Gordon sees two faces of Brazil - the Chapada Diamantina park and a favela in RioIt doesn't take long, less than 24 hours, for me to be offered a handful of diamonds. I hear a whistle, see a local pushing a bike and am given what I take to be a staged conspiratorial look, something between a to... Read more»
Last Frontiers Newsletter #2 August 2003
We would like to thank you for all the positive feedback following our first newsletter, sent in April. As promised we are back again with some news and updates from the travels of the Last Frontiers team, the Latin American specialists.In this edition: News from Last Frontiers Fishing Trekking... Read more»
Last Frontiers Newsletter #1 April 2003
Welcome to the first newsletter from Last Frontiers, the Latin America specialists! In this edition: News from Last Frontiers Antarctica Belize (BBC Holiday 20 April) Fishing in Argentina Chile (riding) Galapagos Venezuela News from Last Frontiers The last year has been a busy one for... Read more»
A new chapter in the jungle book (Nick Thorpe)
Over a smouldering fire in a small clearing on the forested banks of the Orinoco, Marco Martinez is roasting his new canoe."It took me three days to find the right tree," the Warao navigator tells me proudly, wiping a sooty hand across his forehead and leaving a streak like war paint. "I slept out i... Read more»
With the cowboys of Patagonia (Jasper Winn)
Chile's chunk of Patagonia is ridden by some of the world's hardiest cowboys, men who use tough criollo horses to herd cattle across the weather-thrashed pampas, or to carry provisions into the remote, roadless camps of the mountainous Torres del Paine. Seven of us had booked to ride with a bunch of... Read more»
Homage to Patagonia (Justin Marozzi)
High above the scouring winds that rush across the steppe, half-a-dozen condors drift on the thermals. The horses walk on, oblivious to the circling overhead, disturbing a grey fox cub which scurries off into deeper cover. Hearing our approach, a startled hare kicks off through the grass. On the ho... Read more»
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