Qualla: Farellones https://qualla.com/farellones en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/f/farellones-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Farellones https://qualla.com/farellones Farellones: Introduction https://qualla.com/farellones/ Photo credit Alfredo Cofré, CC BY-SA 2.0. The road up is the first thing anyone remembers about Farellones. From the edge of Santiago it claws into the Andes through more than forty hairpin turns, so tight and so steep that on busy winter days traffic is allowed to climb only in the morning and descend only in the afternoon, lest two streams of cars meet on a switchback. At the top, just over 2,300 meters up, sits a cluster of about two hundred wooden cabins - Chile's oldest ski village, and the gateway to the largest ski terrain in the Southern Hemisphere.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/f/farellones-wp/66jf-farellones-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Farellones: Skis from the North https://qualla.com/farellones/ Photo credit Rawderson Rangel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Skiing reached Chile in the early 1930s, arriving with gear shipped from Switzerland and Norway: wooden planks, leather boots greased to keep out the wet, and crude bindings that stayed clamped to the foot even in a fall, which made every tumble an adventure. The sport found its ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/f/farellones-wp/66jf-farellones-skis-from-the-north.mp3 0:06 2 full Farellones: The Roof of the Americas https://qualla.com/farellones/ Photo credit CleteroCL, CC BY-SA 4.0. Farellones itself keeps only a handful of runs, but it is the doorway to far more. Its cable car climbs to El Colorado, five kilometers up the mountain of the same name, and the two are usually counted as a single area of sixty-two runs - eleven for beginners, dozens more rising ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/f/farellones-wp/66jf-farellones-the-roof-of-the-americas.mp3 0:06 3 full Farellones: The Child on the Summit https://qualla.com/farellones/ Photo credit Osmar Valdebenito, CC BY-SA 2.0. Long before skis, these mountains were sacred ground. Herdsmen drove livestock through the high passes, and treasure-seekers combed the slopes for the stone forts and ruins the Inca left behind. On February 1, 1954, three wranglers climbing nearby Cerro El Plomo made an extraordi...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/f/farellones-wp/66jf-farellones-the-child-on-the-summit.mp3 0:06 4 full Farellones: One Road, Many Dangers https://qualla.com/farellones/ Photo credit Rawderson Rangel, CC BY-SA 3.0. The mountains that draw skiers can turn lethal without warning. In July 2016 the Swedish extreme skier Matilda Rapaport was caught in an avalanche while filming nearby; she died days later in a Santiago hospital, a reminder of how thin the margin is at altitude. The single access...

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