Cordillera Real

December, 26, 2011
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By Christian Pondella

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The mission: Three skiers looking for adventure in the Cordillera Real Mountains of Bolivia. The starting point: La Paz, the highest metropolitan city in the world. The challenges: navigating local culture, bad chicken, and climbing 6,000 meter peaks in hopes of finding something decent to ski. This is a gallery of images from a trip last spring taken by photographer Christian Pondella and skiers Dave Rosenbarger and Giulia Monego. The full story on their trip appears in a recent issue of Powder Magazine.

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