The beauty of hiking with llamas is the ability to pack large amounts of camping gear and gourmet provisions. In our case, our children couldn't be expected to carry big backpacks, and we had grand ...

It was around three o’clock in the morning when I began to worry about the llamas. I was huddled in a tent at 11,700 feet in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, and as sheets of rain and gusts of wind ...

After all, they were domesticated in similar terrain in the Andes about 5,000 years ago, and since then they’ve been used almost exclusively as pack animals on rough, high, dry trails.ACE IN THE ...

Llamas, originally from South America, are a member of the camelid family. They're used to guard sheep and as pack animals on mountain treks. Other owners breed and show llamas, train them to pull ...

I was walking along a trail in Yellowstone National Park, meditating on mountains, breathing in the scent of pine and sagebrush, when a llama sneezed in my ear. With bear spray strapped to my waist, I ...