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At night I fell asleep watching the city lights knit up into the stars, and in the morning I woke to a panoramic view of Illimani, the 21,000-foot peak that sits on its haunches keeping watch over ...
Rooted in Andean culture and produced by a curious array of string, wind and percussion instruments, the sound of Inti-Illimani is like no other. At the Wolf Trap Barns on Wednesday night, the ...
The pairing of Inti-Illimani, the Chilean folk group, and the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra must have seemed a brilliant idea when it was conceived. Inti-Illimani, with its multi-instrumental appro… ...
The West Ridge of Illimani remains, according to the alpinists, one of the most beautiful in the Andes and a prime objective for the future. The expedition would like to thank: Crispi, Rewoolution, ...
There’s plenty of that distinctive flavor in the music of Inti-Illimani, but those who’ve dipped into the 35-year career of Chile’s preeminent folkloric band have gotten plenty more: a ...
Here were two highly decorated, respected soldiers, who along with their Bolivian guide, were killed while pursuing the 21,200 ft. summit of Mount Illimani, a spectacular, snow-capped peak visible ...
The flight, EA980, slammed into Illimani on Jan. 1, 1985, en route from Asuncion, Paraguay, to Miami. The bodies of the 29 passengers and crew on board, including eight Americans, were lost in the ...
More than three decades after Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 impacted Mount Illimani in Bolivia, killing all 29 passengers on board, its flight data recorder has been found and turned over to the ...
Back in 2021, I wrote about the case of Daniel Granberg, a 24-year-old from Colorado who died at the summit of a Bolivian mountain called Illimani of what turned out to be high-altitude pulmonary ...