In Potosi, Bolivia, the crew entered Cerro Rico, a silver mountain known as the “mountain that eats men.” At around 13,000 ...

At 6am, a weak and silvery light illuminates the narrow streets of the Calvario neighbourhood, as thousands of men and teenage boys make their way towards the cone-shaped peak that looms over the ...

Agustin Villanca Menacho spends his days searching for silver, zinc and tin, sweating in the heat of a deep mine in southern Bolivia. He is 14 years old. Like the vast majority of the miners at Cerro ...

Centuries of silver mining have left Cerro Rico mountain in the southern highlands of Bolivia on the verge of collapse. The Spanish forced Quechua... Bolivia's Cerro Rico: The Mountain That Eats Men ...

Cerro Rico is famed for the harsh conditions faced by its miners. But, as James Dryburgh discovers, it is not only men who are ‘rock-breakers’ in Bolivia’s Potosí region. Women too, some as old as 81, ...

Mattia Cabitza took a trip to the top of Cerro Rico to see the crater that has formed At the foothill of the Cerro Rico, the market on Plaza El Calvario is every miner's first stop before entering the ...

At the foothill of the Cerro Rico, the market on Plaza El Calvario is every miner's first stop before entering the "rich mountain". The sun has yet to rise over the eastern peaks that surround the ...