Chile
Evacuations ordered in South America as worst tsunami risk passes for US, Japan
Fears of a devastating tsunami faded for the US and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula.
- Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Audrey Mcavoy
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One of the world’s most beautiful walks can now be done in style
This new luxury guided hike makes one of the world’s most revered adventure challenges much more accessible.
- Craig Tansley
A new telescope will find billions of asteroids, galaxies and stars
The Vera Rubin Observatory has cemented its status as a rising star, revealing unprecedented detail captured by the biggest digital camera ever built.
- The Economist
Luxury lodge in one of the harshest environments on Earth reopens
Northern Chile’s Tierra Atacama has just reopened after a year-long, $32 million transformation.
- Julietta Jameson
A land of giants so stunning, it looks like it was created by CGI
From mountains and glaciers to its mythologies, Chilean Patagonia is in every way a land of giants.
- Julie Miller
The charmingly rustic island that Darwin called ‘a miserable hole’
Chiloe in southern Chile may not have impressed Charles Darwin, but its poetically moody terrain forms the cornerstone of its most luxurious lodge.
- Julie Miller
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- Hotel reviews
A spectacular five-star hotel in one of the wildest places on Earth
There’s good reason this property – now part of Baillie Lodges’ portfolio – is consistently awarded as one of the best in Latin America.
- Julie Miller
‘Never observed before’: Wedding cake structure surrounding ultra-hot planet
It is so ferociously hot that the “exoplanet” features iron in the form of a gas in one layer of its atmosphere, while a jet stream moves at 70,000 km/h in another.
- Will Dunham
‘Slimy, wet and rough’: What it’s like inside a whale’s mouth
A prominent whale expert explains why the kayaker who wound up inside the mouth of a humpback whale was in no danger of being swallowed.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Whale swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia
A father has captured on camera the terrifying moment his son was swallowed whole by a humpback whale off Chile.
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