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Llama Trekking in the Highlands of Pariaqaqa, Peru: where the spirit of “ayni” and reciprocity is a way of life.   Story by Jeff Fuchs | Photos by Jeff Fuchs and Domingo Elias Townsend Long necks [...]

Explorer Jeff Fuchs heads to the community of Chawaytiri — the “village of the llama” — where weaving is not just tradition but artform. Story by Jeff Fuchs, Photos by Outpost Colours shimmy in [...]

There’s a Quechua word that embraces a theme Jeff Fuchs has come to learn firsthand: when in the mountains, it’s cooperate or perish. In Peru, in the Sacred Valley of the Andes, they call this [...]

There are some words and concepts that should be shelved and forgotten. Then there are some of eternal value which deserve to rest in a kind of immortal docking zone. “Ayni” is one of them. Story [...]

As he explores Andean Peru and the story of the Great Inca Road, explorer and Outpost team leader Jeff Fuchs reflects on how geography can shape a human destiny. Departures (and arrivals) by [...]