In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied
five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru.
His adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli
on Lake Titicaca, down to Arequipa and finally back to Lima. The
expedition was led by a writer and poet and the party included a
Swiss international skier and jeweller, a social anthropologist
from Provence and a Nottinghamshire farming squire - all seasoned
mountaineers. The other two participants - the author himself and a
botany-loving duke - were complete novices. As the group travelled
from Lima into increasingly remote parts of the country, Leigh
Fermor captured their experiences in a series of letters to his
wife. Whether recounting the thrill of crossing a glacier, the
rigours of campsite life under a blanket of snow, their lively
encounters with locals or the strangely moving sight of a lone
condor circling in the sky, the author vividly conveys the
excitement of discovery and the intense uniqueness of the land.
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