For $2 a go, tourists can purchase sticks of dynamite and experience them exploding in the “nightmarish” subterranean world created by silver miners in Potosí, one of the world’s highest cities.

The traders brought the hats from Manchester, England intending to sell them to Bolivian men and traders living in mining ...

Much of the mining takes place in the nearby red "Cerro Rico" (literally, "Rich Mountain" in English), which was given its ...

The Bolivian mining city of Potosí is the only ... The Cerro Rico became known as “The Mountain That Eats Men” — a name that persists among miners to this day. Potosí soon grew into ...