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Article: Above the clouds by day, under a soft duvet by night
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2008
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ADVENTURES
A new chain of lodges offers the chance to trek across Peru's
peaks and ridges in comfort. Stephen Goodwin reports
Wayrac Lodge sits at 3,800m in the Peruvian Andes at a point
where the high mountain pasture dips towards the tendrilled cloud
forest. Directly south of the lodge rises the snow and ice peak of
Humantay (5,917m) home to an apu, or mountain deity, revered by the
Andean people.
Somewhat regretfully, we were only vouchsafed glimpses of
Humantay's north face as our trek group halted for the night at the
lodge. Though the Wayraccmachay valley in the Cordillera Vilcabamba
is known as "the place where the wind lives", there was barely
sufficient breeze to waft the mists ...