Longboarding, Long Treks Episode 4: Mouth of the Andes

The easy part is over We now face the hardest climb yet, from sea level to summit of a 14, 000ft mountain. Inch by inch, we skate into the mouth of the Andes and become drenched as we ascend into the rainclouds. At highaltitude we battle tougher terrain with half the amount of oxygen. Sleeping for 15 hours in their tents, so as to outlive the rain and rest from the oxygendeficient altitudes, proves to be costly and depletes our water and food supply, but we must push onward, striving to make it to the