LA PAPAYA, ECUADOR — About 10 years ago, with no fanfare or publicity, Alaska became more known in South America with the creation of Alaska del Sur, a specialty coffee farm, high in the Andes ...

Jim, 32, had spent the year guiding rock and ice climbers for a French company in the Andes Mountains in southern ... in the early 1990s off the coast of Alaska. The work left him with a severe ...