Chacaltaya Journal: Boliviaâs Only Ski Resort Is Facing a Snowless Future
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Scientists say global warming could extinguish Boliviaâs skiing tradition when its only ski run disappears forever in a few years.
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President Morales dons his cleats to challenge an international soccer ruling that would bar Bolivia's national team from playing home games
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IQUIQUE, Chile/SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia  - At first glance, the only thing Chilean about the sprawling duty-free car zone in Iquique, set between the Pacific ocean and the Bolivian border, is that it is in Chile.
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TAOS SKI VALLEY, New Mexico  - Skiing purists are grumbling this year as they brace for an influx of snowboarders at Taos Ski Valley, one of the last ski-only holdouts in a culture war between the two pursuits.
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POTOSI, Bolivia  - High silver prices are drawing a frenzy of miners to a colonial-era mine at Potosi in Bolivia, but the mine has become so dangerous that authorities fear the mine, part of a World Heritage Site, could collapse.
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SAN JOSE MINE, Bolivia  - Roger Mamani rides a rickety elevator deep underground, hikes through flooded tunnels and crawls through a maze of muddy burrows to dig silver ore at the San Jose mine in Bolivia's Andes.
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In the snow sports industry, progress doesn't just trump aesthetics. It usually obliterates everything in its path.
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Experts in Chile say the disappearance of a lake in the south of the country was caused by climate change.
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A huge mountain glacier in the Andes could disappear in five years as a result of climate change, an academic warns.
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Tourists and political pilgrims can now follow "Che's trail" in Bolivia, which traces Ernesto Guevara's fatal attempt to export the Cuban revolution to one of Latin America's poorest countries.
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CHRISTMAS IN THE DESERT: There is no snow, though it hailed briefly in parts of Iraq last week and the temperature has dipped below freezing in recent days.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Indigenous groups and  independent candidates were poised to win local elections in  Bolivia on Sunday, while support for traditional parties sank  further after a popular revolt last year toppled former  president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
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Tropical Guatemala will be the unlikely venue when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) picks the host of the 2014 Winter Games from a trio of bidding cities after a campaign in which no clear favorite has emerged.
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Two New England ski resorts, Mount Snow in Vermont and Attitash in New Hampshire, are set to be sold for $73.5 million.
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Indoor skiing is coming to the United States. Depending upon your perspective, this is either the next big thing in snowsports or a sign that the apocalypse is creeping closer to the skiing and snowboarding industry.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Heavy snow in the Andes left 6,100 trucks stuck yesterday along the main mountain pass between Argentina and Chile, a transportation official said.
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VAL D'ISERE, France  - As far as Hermann Maier is  concerned, the Alpine skiing season has yet to start.