Vince, I would not go that far, in that they were high in the bare Andean plateau -- above 14,000 feet -- and poorly clothed to spent the night outdoors, and more importantly in need of fodder and... more
Yes, I know it would have been cold, but keep in mind these were guys who had endured the open of the range, which can get bone chilling cold, even killing cold. They knew how to deal w/camping in... more
Vince, Well, aside from shelter & food for themselves -- assuming one considers beer & sardines food (it was still a staple in stores in the Andes when I lived there in the 1960s) -- they needed... more
Vince, there is such a thing as over-thinking what happened, because it did happen, or as they say, WYSIWYG -- a computer world acronym re-purposed from a Flip Wilson tag line, what you see is what... more
But moving past the one obvious point about need of food, we are still left with a psychological issue that has a great bearing on the events that night: In Butch's last moments he appears to be... more
Vince, Maybe it was something akin to the DeNiro--Grodin meltdown in Midnight Run, "you didn't know I was lying to you when you lied to me down by the river. So as far as you knew, you lied to me... more
Re: End of the Road by Buck & Meadows — Vince Garcia,Sun Jan 7 5:00pm
Vince, I think the better answer is still that water & fodder for the mules was more important, and determined where they went and camped. That area of SW Bolivia, more precisely SW Potosi Department ... more