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Crashed and stranded in the Andes for 72 days with no food… so would you have turned

SOCIETY OF THE SNOW by Pablo Vierci (Constable £25, 384pp) Few news stories have incited as much, and as heated, public debate as the events of 1972 that became known as the ‘Miracle of the Andes’.The story, now sensitively told by…

Arid, remote and irresistible: Not much grows in Chile’s Atacama desert – except your

The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and arid that Nasa practices Mars expeditions there.So when a carpet of purple flowers began poking through the earth in October 2022, Chile’s president Gabriel…

Man, 70, who killed his pregnant wife then hid in Argentina rainforest for 22 years

Ramon Angel Abregú escaped from jail just months after wife's murder The 70-year-old spent 22 years on the run from police, hidden in the jungle By Jonathan Guildford Published: 09:50 EDT, 20 October 2023 | Updated:…

Sorer than humanly possible: People with Neanderthal genes are more likely to be

Some Neanderthals felt more pain from the prick of a spear than any similar pain from fire, cold or blunt force - and scientists now know the gene they've passed on.In recent months, geneticists have linked a variety of modern conditions…

The jaw-dropping winners of the 2023 panoramic photo awards revealed, from a dazzling

Brace yourself for a stunning visual journey around the world, courtesy of these panoramic images.The photographs have picked up accolades in the 2023 Epson International Pano Awards, the world's largest competition devoted to panoramic…

Mountain of discarded clothes in Chile can now be seen from SPACE

Shame of the West's fast fashion addiction: Mountain of discarded clothes in Chile can now be seen from SPACEBy Matthew Phelan For Dailymail.Com Updated: 13:41 EDT, 20 June 2023 …