For lovers of the great outdoors, there are few places on earth that can rival this town’s location. Whether you’re...
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Horsing Around in the Cordillera Blanca
Frost, leftover from the cold, clear night still covers the ground in light layers, The sun is slowly rising over...
Birding the Cordillera Blanca
Second only to the Himalayas in magnificence, the Cordillera Blanca is an awesome spectacle of glacier-spackled, fan-shaped, and pyramidal peaks....
Epic Chakinani
And the winner of this year’s “World’s Best-kept Secret” award goes to—deafening silence and mounting suspense as the envelope is...
Sesquicentennial of Antonio Raimondi’s first visit to Huaraz
This year we can observe the 150th anniversary of Antonio Raimondi’s arrival in Huaraz and the beginning of many important...
Climate Change
EMERGING EFFECTS ON PERUVIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BIODIVERSITY AND HIGH MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARKS Peru lies near the intersection of several major...
Diamonds in the Ice
The night grows increasingly darker and colder, like the giant crevasses that have encompassed us. We search for a safe...
Altitude Illness
Almost every year people die from altitude illnesses in the Cordillera Blanca. It will take four minutes to read the...
Annie Peck Conqueror of Huascarán
Celebrating the Centennial of Andinism in Peru. Do you know what the sport of andinism is and when it started?...
Go Big and Go Home
“Hey you guys, watch out for the pig when you come around this corner,” Julio said, looking back up at...
CONCHUCOS
Around 50,000 people travel from Huaraz to visit the monumental pre-Inca site of Chavín de Huántar each year, taking the...
Welcome to Huaraz
elcome to Huaraz, base camp for the second highest mountain range in the world outside the HimalWaya. Trekkers and climbers,...