The Huayhuash hike (pronounced why-wha-ash), located near Huaraz, Peru, attracts experienced hikers from all over the world and uh, also, me. The experience changed me forever, especially my appreciation of oxygen. Instead of boring you with thousands of words, I’ve selected ten photos to sum up the experience or one Korean word that I learned from one of my hiking […]
The Huayhuash in ten photos or one word: 예쁘다
Mountain Turtle
Okay, so this humungo Huayhuash hike begins Friday morning, at 2 am when the van picks me up from the akilpo hotel and I take a seven hour journey to the trail head in Matacancha. (Thst is why I brought my butt donut). So what have I been doing while waiting? Two days of acclimating, wandering through cuy markets and […]
Butt donut, donkeys, and chutzpah.
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