The Monkey has visited Chile twice, in 1998 and again in 2005. His first visit was brief, reaching the mountaintop border at the Paso de los Libertadores in the high Andes by foot from Argentina’s Uspallata Pass area. Unfortunately, due to extremely high winds that promised to push the Monkey off the edge to certain death, he couldn’t risk a photograph. For his second visit to Chile, El Mono decided to try flying over the Andes from Argentina instead. He spent time in Santiago, Valparaíso, and once again up in the Andes.
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