Surviving a Windswept Land

Letter from Patagonia July/August 2023

For 13,000 years, hunter-gatherers thrived in some of the world’s harshest environments
(Courtesy Raven Garvey)
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The peaks of the Andes rise over Chile’s Aysén region in Patagonia, the southern quarter of South America and one of the last places on Earth to be settled by humans.(Courtesy Raven Garvey)

(Ken Feisel)

The southern tip of South America is a region of extreme landscapes, where towering granite peaks and glacial ice caps give way to grasslands that fade into the ocean. Small huemul deer weave through stands of beech that are permanently bent sideways by the same powerful winds that lift

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