Print: Salkantay's Refuge
At 20,574 ft Salkantay is the highest mountain in the Vilcabamba mountain range and the 12th highest in Peru. The name roughly translates to the Savage Mountain and is considered sacred to Peruvian natives. Since the pre-Incan times, the same community has lived in the valley at the mountain's base, farming the harsh landscape and tending to livestock. The house on the hill is a testament to changing times as tourists rest there before passing at the foot of the mountain during a roughly 45-mile hike to Machu Pichu along the Inca trail.
When I hiked it back in 2022, food poisoning and altitude sickness made the hike one of the toughest I have done in my life. I shot this picture in a daze as I lagged behind the group. In order to capture the magnitude of the landscape I shot several shots and stitched them together in a panorama. A risky technique because I didn’t have a tripod and the process was likely to fail, but it paid off. If you can look closely you can see my companions on their last assent to the house where they enjoyed coca tea as they watched me drag myself up the last mile. My food poisoning fever broke a few days later and I was able to enjoy one of the grandest landscapes on the planet.
Print Quality: All prints are created using high-quality photo paper. Mounted prints are affixed to aluminum backing and include preinstalled aluminum rails for convenient hanging and installation.
Sizes Available:
Small: 10 x 8 inches
Medium: 20 x 16 inches
Large: 30 x 24 inches
At 20,574 ft Salkantay is the highest mountain in the Vilcabamba mountain range and the 12th highest in Peru. The name roughly translates to the Savage Mountain and is considered sacred to Peruvian natives. Since the pre-Incan times, the same community has lived in the valley at the mountain's base, farming the harsh landscape and tending to livestock. The house on the hill is a testament to changing times as tourists rest there before passing at the foot of the mountain during a roughly 45-mile hike to Machu Pichu along the Inca trail.
When I hiked it back in 2022, food poisoning and altitude sickness made the hike one of the toughest I have done in my life. I shot this picture in a daze as I lagged behind the group. In order to capture the magnitude of the landscape I shot several shots and stitched them together in a panorama. A risky technique because I didn’t have a tripod and the process was likely to fail, but it paid off. If you can look closely you can see my companions on their last assent to the house where they enjoyed coca tea as they watched me drag myself up the last mile. My food poisoning fever broke a few days later and I was able to enjoy one of the grandest landscapes on the planet.
Print Quality: All prints are created using high-quality photo paper. Mounted prints are affixed to aluminum backing and include preinstalled aluminum rails for convenient hanging and installation.
Sizes Available:
Small: 10 x 8 inches
Medium: 20 x 16 inches
Large: 30 x 24 inches