Buenos Aires to the Andes
They head south and west, living on favours and odd jobs.
In late 1951 Ernesto and his friend Alberto Granado left Argentina on a worn-out Norton 500 nicknamed La Poderosa. The bike died along the way. The trip did not.
They head south and west, living on favours and odd jobs.
The motorcycle gives up. They continue on foot, by truck and by raft.
Weeks working alongside patients leave a deep mark on both men.
Ernesto flies home. He is now a different man from the one who left.