Robin Van Loon

In the Peruvian Amazon, many jungle dwellers are reluctant to call palms ‘trees’. They are a category of plants unto themselves.

Some believe the Inkas maintained a kind of obsession with entering the rainforests to the east of their Andean domain.

Every year in the high Andes of Peru, tens of thousands of pilgrims walk a cold stony trail to the base of one of the region’s many glaciers.