Photographer Reuben Wu devised a creative way to shoot Peru’s Pastoruri glacier at night. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c0addc2da545e26dd421aea/master/pass/RW_Pastoruri_2000px-2.jpg
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The road to Choquequirao: Is this Peru’s next Inca Trail?
At Mirador Capuliyoc (2,970 meters), the pale thread of the Apurímac, some 1500 meters below, shows through the cloud. Somewhere across the valley at around the same altitude as I am now was Choquequirao—just over 20 kilometers away, eight of which were down to the river and 12 of which were straight up the other […]
Mummy of paraplegic child shows how Peru’s Nasca culture treated disability
The Nasca Boy’s remains are now on display in the National Museum of Ica, Peru. (credit: Tilley et al. 2018) Most Peruvian mummies come bundled in cloth, with their legs folded up to their chests and their arms around their knees. But the young boy we now know only as the Nasca Boy was buried […]
