Darwin Range News Today

Every now and then a stronger gust shakes us – a reminder that we are very far from civilisation. As usual we are gathered around the stove, listening with fascination to the stories of Atilio, our captain.

The waterfalls were flowing skyward. As for the sky, it seemed to be darkening as the sun climbed higher. The trees clinging to the cliffs grew in swirls and explosions of green; whatever tropism was guiding them was inconstant. A great flock of condors was being blown hither and thither by squalls and even the solitary albatross struggled to soar and glide. She was alone for a reason; the condors had eaten her chicks.

During the hottest days of the Cold War, South American island Tierra del Fuego was considered a safe haven

Cristian Donoso has spent the past three decades witnessing the melting of the world’s ice sheets. Following in the footsteps of historic expeditions, he replicates photographs taken by adventurers and scientists from the past to compare the current state of the planet’s glaciers. ‘Almost all of them are melting,’ he says