the african army of the andes
In late 2017 I organised an expedition over the Andes from Argentina to Chile via the Piuquenes and Portillo passes. We walked in the footsteps of a column of the liberating army of Jose de San Martin and his predominantly Afro-Argentine troops 200 years earlier, part of a trans-continental campaign to forge a United States of South America.
Below is a gallery of some images from our journey (photo credits: Henry Comyn).
“What keeps me awake is not the resistance of the enemy... but the crossing of these enormous mountains.”