Rescuers search for tourists after snowstorm in Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park kills at least five

The Torres del Paine National Park in Chile's southern Magallanes Region on January 6, 2024. Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images Santiago, Chile Reuters —

Rescue workers on Tuesday searched for a group of tourists lost in a powerful snowstorm in Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park, in the southern Patagonia region, which killed at at least five people, authorities said.

Torres del Paine Mayor Anahi Cardenas said five people had died, including two Mexicans, two Germans and one British national. Cardenas said the difficult weather was complicating efforts to locate those still missing.

Guillermo Ruiz, the presidential delegate for Chile’s southern province of Ultima Esperanza, said the tourists became lost near the national park’s Los Perros camp, an area reachable only by a four-