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Who Was Huayna Capac? The Life & Times of the Last True Inca King
Huayna Capac’s Life After Death & Final Resting Place For most leaders, death would be the end of the story, but Huayna Capac, like the Sapa Incas before him, remained in service to the Inca ...
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I hiked a mountain in the Andes to celebrate my 40th birthday. The hallucinations and violent vomiting that followed weren't part of the plan.
They were not real. I got altitude psychosis a few hundred meters from high camp as I scaled the frigid face of Huayna Potosí, one of the highest mountains in the Bolivian Andes. My optimism ...
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'I never wore trousers, and I never will': A Bolivian woman's fight against sexism in the mountains
In 2015, she and a group of ten other women, called the "cholitas escaladoras" (the climbing cholitas), reached the top of Huayna Potosí, challenging stereotypes along the way. The term "cholita ...