CHILE: Schuss in the Andes

Along the sunny slopes of the world's second highest mountain range,*lucky latinos with time & money were hard at work at winter sports. Chilean students and bank clerks by the hundreds dashed off in buses and open trucks for Sundays at Farellones, a village of ski-club huts within sight of Santiago. Argentines rode the ski tow to the top of Vermont-like foothills around the lake town of Bariloche. Luckiest of all were those who bucked the drifts to Portillo, 9,300 feet high and right in the ribs of the Andes.

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