Roughly along South America's pacific coasts, the Andes is the longest mountain chain, changing character notably as it passes trough different climate types. Patagonia in the south has mainly deserts where pumas hunt. The central sections has arid highlands and peaks surpassed only by the Himalaya, a paradise for mountaineers, but rendering life rare, like a bird confined to a single glacier, hence threatened with extinction as all of those are slowly but systematically melting way due to climate chance. The northern, equatorial section shares in the Amazonian abundance of jungle ecology, the most dense concentration of life -on many levels from soil to high foliage- and staggering variety of species, some confined to tiny areas, with extraordinary adaptations, such as a 3D-shapshifting tree-climbing rain frog.
—KGF Vissers