This red desert is known as the Pampa de Islay crest at the middle of the curve. They are very conspicuous by their light color & friends on the red desert of course pebbles and rocks. The weather in the desert pro ofs clear + sunny as it always is + the mm caps of this volcano of Misti + its high neighbor Chachani could be seen and putter away their solid white crow of 1 the lefty Coropuna puts clearly visible, Misti is a perfect a gigantic cone standing balond. Coropuna is a long ridge with its ends rising into two truncate peaks. The hills or mountains which border this desert are also free of vegetation like the desert but are covered or spotted by a light veil of grey-white sand in which gives them the appearance of being partly covered by wind swept snow. Above visitor we passed & climbed up the second escarpment latter we ascended then some red double red hills until the Chili River was reached then followed up one edge for