South America

Spend the gazillion hours traveling that it takes to get to Portillo, Chile, and you’ll be rewarded with the sensation that time slows down when you’re there.

Two years of patience and weeks of hard work are paying off at Portillo with an all-time start to winter in South America.

These backcountry ski guiding operations will lead you to the goods in South America.

For the first time since 2019, you can check off the ultimate summer bucket list trip. You might even get some freshies.

After a full day of skiing in Valle Nevado, it's time for one more cultural experience—a soak in the communal hot tub.

The fastest lift in Chile combined with the world's fastest skiers make for a hard-to-beat week of skiing at Valle Nevado.

Take your game to the next level with some educational vineyard tours and wines fit for royalty.

A trip to Valle Nevado meant packing all the ski trip essentials. Here are a few of the editors' favorites for a summer ski trip adventure.

Photographer Sebastian Monuz captures the remote beauty of skiing the Lonquimay Volcano in Chile.

Until the employees get paid, nobody can ski at this popular ski area in Bariloche. By Leslie Hittmeier

Heavy snowfall and extreme wind events in Chile have created hazardous conditions in many backcountry zones in South America. By Leslie Hittmeier

With everyone jealous of all the fresh powder happening down South, we checked in with a few folks who’ll make you even more jealous, and closer than ever to planning your next South American skiing adventure. By Leslie Hittmeier

Three important lessons I've learned from 2 and half years of travel. By Sarah Johnson

A Q&A with Caroline Gleich about her most recent expedition in Peru. By Leslie Hittmeier

The Powder Click photo camp, put on by Ski Magazine, is the perfect excuse to up your photo game while spending a week skiing in Chile.

Learn to shoot ski action photography this summer at Skiing Magazine's Powder Click photo camp in Chile.

Test your skier IQ with this easy quiz.

"The Shadow Campaign," like daydreams of Northern skiers during summer, focuses on the lure of skiing South America. The first webisode pays homage to the continent where founder Stephan Drake hatched the notion of DPS.

JP Auclair and Andreas Fransson were caught in an avalanche on South America’s Mount Cochrane on Monday, September 29, 2014.

Let’s review last year’s faceshots and white rooms from around the Western Hemisphere.

Portillo diehards wouldn’t have it any other way than old-school. See for yourself here.

Welcome to Portillo, Chile, where gringos trade flip-flops for ski boots, racers and freeriders mingle, and pisco flows like carménère.

Don't stop skiing.

Want to ski (and get better) this summer? Check out the other hemisphere.

A Photo Gallery of The World's Most Unusual Ski Race.

Now in its third year, Avalancha en el Volcán is a ski race from the smoking, belching crater of Chile's 9,341-foot Villarrica volcano.

Image Quest gives aspiring ski photographers a chance to shoot in real-world conditions with some of the industry's best photographers. Here are some photos from past camps.

South American camp gives invaluable experience to aspiring ski photographers.

Sign up for the Image Quest Valle Nevado Photography Camp.

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It's still winter at these resorts.

The best places you didn't know you wanted to ski.

Self-doubt can be paralyzing—or it can be empowering.

Examining flight in South America.

Learn from the master.

Skiing big lines in Reggie Vision.

Skiers get ready to shred a Chilean volcano

A look at the future of ski competition

How a U.S. skier is fostering avalanche safety down south.

Team Discrete snags the win

Reggie Crist helps city dwellers escape the concrete jungle to ski Chilean powder.

Ingrid’s gear picks for heli-skiing the Andes

The first stop on the newly reorganized Freeride World Tour hits a snag as Mother Nature continues to be stingy.

The dizzying dream comes to a close

Getting lifted with Chris Davenport and Ingrid Backstrom

TJ David shares what it takes to get a shot

An inside look at last weeks adventure at La Parva.

A quick look at what's going down at La Parva

Dav shares his gear choices for skiing the Andes.

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Jonesing for a South American ski fix? Columnist Tom Winter explores four different Chilean resorts with his typical sardonic wit.

Clark Anderson kayaking rapids in the Andes.

The first day of the Swatch Skiers Cup, an international battle of pride was yesterday at Valle Nevado. Team Europe dominated, but Team Americas has some time to redeem itself.

Ever wondered what it’s like to compete in a big mountain ski comp? So did I…

For a price, travel in South America can be done tamely and comfortably. But where’s the fun in that? Argentina and Chile march to their own beat, so here are a few tips to navigate the nitty-gritty cultural experience and ski on the cheap.

August is when the itch gets the worst. Hot, lazy days lose their shine. The buzz of the air conditioner starts to burn your eardrums. And winter feels SO far away. And it is, but a plane ticket or a long hike could change that. Here’s where you can get your midsummer fix.

The latest shots from the Eye of the Condor photo contest. We're on scene and we'll have shots of the action as it happens. Stay tuned.

Sweetgrass productions drops the trailer for their two-years-in-the-making film, "Solitaire.

Normally the season in Southern Hemisphere is well under way by this point in the year. Not this year. Natural disasters and a lack of major snow means the Southern Hemisphere winter has started off slow. But ski camps, contests, and other events are still going on. Here’s what you need to know if you’re headed south.

After a slow start to the season it's starting to snow south of the equator. Here's what some of the resorts are looking like.

Meat, wine, and yerba mate. And why the South American diet is good for you.

Sweetgrass Productions isn't your average film company. Instead of shooting urban jibs and heli-fueled big mountain lines, they've made a name for themselves by filming in-depth portraits of human-powered ski culture, with a side of pow shots (see their last film "Signatures"). They've spent the past two seasons in South America shooting their 2011 production, "Solitare." Here's a behind the scenes look.

Typically, the best advice for finding uncharted ski terrain is to "go west." But as columnist Tom Winter describes, at this time of year, the best advice is to "go south." He offers tips on where to ski in Chile and Argentina.

Have you ever wondered how climate change is going to affect your ski season? The folks at Protect Our Winters have, and they’re working to spread awareness to winter sports enthusiasts worldwide.

This mountain outpost is a living tribute to what skiing used to be.

A 17-year-old Utah skier tops out and manages to get some turns in on the way down.

Senior Editor Sam Bass is headed to Antarctica on a ship full of skiers.

It may be August, but that doesn't mean there isn't powder skiing to be had somewhere in the world. Here's a collection of shots taken from La Parva and Valle Nevado, Chile, by Drew Stoecklein and Spencer Francey.

Inside Skiing Magazine’s South American Photo Challenge.

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