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Mountain guides Luis Diaz, 44, and Daniela Pagli, 43, along with Reuters journalist Alexander Villegas, walk along a path on their way to the El Plomo mountain summit, in the Andes mountain range, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile, April 4, 2024. Temperatures are rising faster at higher altitude, with one multinational study published in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation showing that daytime winter surface temperatures in the Andes rose by 0.50 C per decade since 2000 at an elevation of 1,000 to 1,500 meters, but by 1.7C above 5,000 meters. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado SEARCH "ALVARADO PONCE ANDES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

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