Words and Captions Marissa Krawczak Photos Patricio “Pato” Diaz y body lurches in the backseat of the rental truck as we weave around mounds of desert slough and dried lumps of grass. Reggaeton pounds over the radio and a dry cough escapes my lungs involun-tarily. My eyelids feel heavy and swollen and I am nauseous from driving winding roads for hours, not acclimatized ade-quately to our current 15,800 feet of elevation. It’s only our sec-ond day in the high Andes of Northern Chile, after driving from the sea-level city of Arica. In the Chilean Andes at roughly 18,000 feet above sea level, Nelly Steinhoff, Anto Galmez, Pau Carro and Marissa Krawczak look down from the high shoulder of Volcan Taapaca. M
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