Another view of the mighty peaks looming above camp.
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Janca. Another dot on the map...one stone hut with a grass roof and some flocks of sheep. Almost to the first night's camp, on the banks of Laguna Miticocha at the base of the peaks in the distance. |
| Day One, camp. Laguna Miticocha. | |
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Laguna Miticocha, a glacial lake, fed by the melting ice pilings of perpetual avalanche. |
| Day Two, morning, packed and ready to head out. Gringo is going through his normal, early morning, pre-trek stretching exercises. He has a pretty set routine. | |
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Day 2, camp, perched on the edge of a cliff high above Laguna Carhuacocha, hemmed in by a glacial fortress. This was the first avalanche I've witnessed (lower right)...it lasted long enough for me to realize what was happening and take this picture...it would be the first of many. If it looks small, it's because those mountains are enormous. |
Another view of the mighty peaks looming above camp. |
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Another view from camp, more of Laguna Carhuacocha, glacial melt bringing life to the laguna in the left of the photo, three massive ice pilings of Laguna Gangrajanca in the distance. |
| Day 3. Caryl and I took the seven hour route past the blue and green pallet of Lagunas Gangrajanca, Siula, and Quesillococha. Tito took the two and a half hour route because the burros couldn't climb the 15,740ft pass. This is Laguna Gangrajanca, a brisk agate stew with car-sized chunks of ice, fed by three melting avalanche pilings. The photo is from atop the rim of its other-worldy, glacial morraine (thanks Caryl!), a towering crater of rock deposited by thousands of years of glacial retreat.
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