As the world around us changes, so does our way of life. But even as new technology, innovation, experience and education shape the forces of modern life, traditional values and skills are

being preserved in places around the globe. Chile’s gauchos, the rugged cattlemen who call some of the country’s most remote regions home, are preservationists, bringing the old ways into a

modern world. Seen as a rejection of European modernization, the gauchos of South America are not unlike American cowboys in representing romantic ideals of the past. But men like Horaldo

Soto, 51 (seen riding his horse, El Engaño, in the photograph above by Cristina de Middel) are plenty active today. Living deep in a remote area of Chile called Valle del León, he’s up early