Matthew Tufts and Thor Retzlaff have made the first ski descent of the north face of the 3,580m Lautaro volcano in Chilean Patagonia. Tufts and Retzlaff headed to the volcano two weeks ago.

As for the other Patagonia outpost of Puerto Natales ... Clear days let you watch Chile's volcano-studded center slip into the horizon, replaced by thickly forested shorefront crag and, eventually ...

In 1991 the volcanic cloud also reached the Falklands covering much of the fields creating a serious problem for the sheep industry and air links The Patagonia territories of Chile and Argentina ...

Since the Puyehue volcano erupted June 4 ... it’s not an option for larger ranches which are much common in Patagonia. This means the costly transporting of cattle and sheep to other grazing ...