Tehuelche

By 1741, British accounts noted that the Tehuelche were masterful riders.

The locals, probably Indigenous Tehuelche people, were no longer notable just for their size.

The Tehuelche were innovators, too: Outsiders marveled at their bolas, weighted rope snares they swung and launched from horseback to hunt llamalike guanaco and flightless rhea birds.

The Indigenous Tehuelche people called it Chaltén, or smoking mountain, because it is usually shrouded by clouds.

“Yapai peñi,” someone said, a Tehuelche toast.