We were an hour outside of Putaendo, when the yerba maté started to take effect. It was June and deep mid winter. All that afternoon we had driven north towards the sun, which now was on its low drawling descent into the Pacific Ocean.
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Matthew Maynard
Matthew Maynard
Matt Maynard has a life-long love of adventurous sport and travel. He has climbed rock faces around the world, cycled his bicycle across South America and finished 8th last year in UK 50mile championship. He is a classroom teacher who needed to escape outdoors, and is happiest when helping others to pursue the same passion. Originally from the UK, he is based in the foothills of the Andes near Santiago, Chile. He is working on opening new trails at the moment, which inludes a new VK route from his front door and has recently launched his trail running guiding service called greenbeantrails.
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Matt Maynard explores how running can be grounding, in his new unfamiliar surround-ings of South America
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At 80 years of age, Elisa crossed the finish line of ‘El Cruce’earlier this month. She had run for three days, crossing from Argentina to Chile, through the Andes mountains.
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When I was much younger, but still old enough to know better, we used to play a game involving bicycles and trespassing on private land. We would head out from…