Surrounded by mighty glaciers and fortress-like granite peaks, battered by Antarctic winds and icy rain, a female puma tries to raise its family and tracks its prey across the rugged landscape Condors soar high above this lonely mountain range, and compete with the Puma for food, as does the Patagonian Fox. Life in the southern Andes has had to pit itself against some of the most brutal conditions on earth. But Patagonia also has very different side: Moisturized by Pacific fog, the Valdivian rainforest is bursting with natural treasures.