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Photo: Torres del Paine, Chile
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Photograph by Skip Brown
A woman guides her horse through a wind-blown valley in Chilean Patagonia as the jagged, snow-clad towers of the Torres del Paine rise in the background. The rugged Paine range was formed when plateaus of granite were thrust upward by tectonic collisions, then carved away by ancient retreating glaciers.
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