Category: Lares Valley

A 17,713 ft, glacier-capped mountain (5399 meters) in the Peruvian Andes.

A photograph of houses in Cuncani, Peru in the early morning.

Another photo of Nevado Sirihuani.

There’s nothing quite as exciting as a 45 minute hailstorm at 15,000 feet.

This is the gate to the schoolyard in Cuncani where we camped. Our guide pointed out several times that the school was constructed by an […]

The extremely small village of Cuncani is in the valley on the right side of this photo. This wonderful view greeted us while descending to […]

A mountain house outside of Quishuarani, a small village in the sacred valley region of Peru. This house is located at 12,800 feet (3900 meters) […]

We crossed this pass at 13,800 feet during our first day hiking in the Andes.