Climate change threatens an Andean ski boom

The Economist · last updated August 21, 2025 – 5:38 AM

Nick Cherney, a 43-year-old asset manager from the state of Colorado, stands before a bare slope at Las Leñas, a ski resort in Mendoza, Argentina. “Normally that would be great skiing, but now it’s just rock. If you go off that, you’re dead,” he says. Then he begins shuffling farther up the mountain, where slopes are whiter. This year, in the depth of winter in South America’s most famous ski resort, the only way to get space for some decent turns is to walk up.

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