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Photo taken at Pastoruri mountain, Huaraz-Ancash

The Pastoruri glacier is even more popular than Laguna 69, since it is reachable by foot in 30 minutes. This made it a really crowded spot in the 80’s, when people where coming here to ski. Today there is not much left. All the brown rock you see in the picture used to be covered by ice 15 years ago. Needless to say the lake wasn’t there
6 years ago

Photo taken at Laguna 69- Huaraz

After a really challenging hike I got to Laguna 69 at 4604m. This is probably the most popular lake of the more than 400 that can be found in the Huascarán National Park. In the thaw season, the lake is nourished by a waterfall from the Chacraraju glacier, so it’s a good place to observe how the landscape is changing
6 years ago

Photo taken at Parque Nacional de Huascarán

Huascarán, situated in the Cordillera Blanca range of the western Andes, is the highest point in Peru (6768m). As all of the other 660 formations in the area, its glacier is retreating and could disappear in the next 40 years delivering water shortages and catastrophic floods in the nearby towns
6 years ago

Photo taken at Huaraz

In the rural areas of Cordillera Blanca is really common to find Quechua people still wearing traditional clothes, often made by hand. What is striking to me is that they don’t wear them only for special events but every day, even while doing heavy manual work in the field. Unfortunately younger generations are starting to wear just normal modern clothes
6 years ago

Photo taken at Huaraz

My guide Octavio invited me to visit Caserío de Yarush, the small village where he was born. His father welcomed us in his humble house and prepared some fresh egg soup using only products from his land
6 years ago

Photo taken at Huaraz

From Lima I took a bus to Huaraz, to explore how the melting glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca are changing the life of the farmers that live in the area
6 years ago

Photo taken at Surquillo, Lima, Peru

Quick technical stop in Lima, Peru, before heading to the Cordillera Blanca. I had to fix my camera bag and I knew some artisan in Surquillo market area could help me
6 years ago

Photo taken at Isabela Island, Galapagos Ecuador

In the highlands of Isabela I met Igniacio. “I was born here but now I moved with all my family down to the coast, where I work as a security guard. However I still have my land here and take care of it every day. Look how many beautiful plants there are! Actually before the National Park was created we used to have even more fertile land around here. Now it’s gone because we can’t use it
6 years ago

Photo taken at Isla Isabela, Galapagos, Ecuador

Moving far from the coast I was able to explore some of the highlands, where the landscape changes completely. While moving up the vegetation starts filling the horizon. Some of the land was left outside of the National park and is still being cultivated by locals to grow avocado, banana, coffee and others local products
6 years ago

Photo taken at Isabela Island, Galapagos Ecuador

On Isabela, the biggest but not so populated island of the Galapagos archipelago, I had a chance to chat with some of the elder members of the community. “When I was young there was no tourism here, we mainly survived on agriculture and fishing. There were no cars and only small gravel roads that went from the coast to the highlands, where most of us were living. Tourism improved our economy and most of us moved to the coast to take advantage of that
6 years ago