The Cat with Many Names
ON A BUCKET-LIST-LED TRIP, I travelled to the southern edge of Chile, merely 180 kilometres from Antarctica. Patagonia is a remote, wild, windswept, and mysterious land at the very tip of the South American continent. It is one of the last great wildernesses on the planet, a place of snow, vast rolling grassy steppes, Andean foothills, and deep fjords and lakes. My quest: to walk with the puma. This) than anywhere else in the world. That’s mostly because there’s plenty of prey (guanacos, hares) here, the cats are protected in the National Park, and lack of competition from other mammalian predators such as wolves.
