Up to the north of Chile, the beach was endless, 3,000 mile beach.

The mountains in the Himalayas are higher than those in the Andes.

like some Earthlings.

40 percent of all the people in the world get half of their drinking water from that melting flow.

Now, what does that mean?

like that of the Qoyilur Rit'i, which occurs when the Pleiades reappear in the winter sky.

But more importantly, it was linked in to the Andean notions of sacred geography.

But who could show a cheek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed

I believe the people will wake up and say, That's enough.

Some 1,500 miles south of the tropics, between Chile and Bolivia, the Andes completely change.

I've been back several times for filming, most recently for Untamed Americas it's the Altiplano in the high Andes of South America, and it's the most otherworldly place I know.

I only managed to do it by chewing more coca leaves in one day than anyone in the 4,000 year history of the plant.

And whether it is the Penan in the forests of Borneo, or the Voodoo acolytes in Haiti, or the warriors in the Kaisut desert of Northern Kenya, the Curandero in the mountains of the Andes, or a caravanserai in the middle of the Sahara this is incidentally the fellow that I traveled into the desert with a month ago or indeed a yak herder in the slopes of Qomolangma,

And I'd say that it deserves, in the spirit of Wade Davis' talk, to be at least put up there with these wonderful creation stories of the peoples of the high Andes and the frozen north.