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Getting Our Bearings Back after Qoyllur Rit’i

June 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Climate Change & Disappearing Glaciers, Festivals, Sacred Rituals, Religion

Back in Lima today after four days and three nights at Qoyllur Rit’i. We got great material (interviews, photos, video), and all of us survived, but it was an ordeal.

photo c. Jorge Vera 2006

Bitterly cold temperatures (-10 degrees Celcius), sleepless nights accompanied by constant drumming, dynamite being set off helter-skelter. Having to re-set up camp ourselves in the dark [...]

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