How are you, professor?’ I asked.
‘Well,’ he replied in between bouts of non-stop panting. That ascent was beginning to take its toll, and I remained at his side to help him.
After an hour climbing, we spotted a pair of huge condors majestically circling the top of the mountain.
‘Have you seen the size of that one?’ James said, pointing to the male of the pair.
‘They are spectacular,’ I replied. ‘Look. Their nest is over there amongst those rocks.’
‘This is where the easy part of the climb ends,’ Néstor interrupted us.
The green cloak of the slope’s vegetation gave way to a much steeper rock face.
‘We’ll look for a natural path that leads to the top.’
Our fatigue was becoming more evident with each step, but there was no going back. Half an hour later we had reached the top, a rock
