Here’s how we’d pictured it: Marching up to Machu Picchu at dawn, triumphantly finishing a four-day, 27-mile trek to the famed Incan ruins. Here’s how it actually happened: Hobbled by a violent ...

As Peru’s trekking season begins, guides are warning hikers about the dangers of rapid altitude gain and variable highland weather. Popular routes like Rainbow Mountain and the Inca Trail require ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. --University of South Carolina officials say a medical student has died in an apparent hiking accident while on a medical outreach mission trip in Peru. USC spokesman Wes Hickman told ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). “We’ve reached the point of no return,” says my guide, Julio Llancay. It should sound ominous, but with that ever-present grin ...

Tamarack Hollow will present "Explore Peru!: Highland Plant, Tree, Fauna & Flora Hike" from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 8, at the Dorothy Rice Sanctuary. Learn about and how to identify plants, ...

It's mid-afternoon, and our small group is catching its breath after slowly scaling the steep, winding trails of Peru's Colca Canyon. We sit in silence as we look over an ancient landscape of sheer ...

SUNSET — Now back home in Sunset, Gary Bybee, fresh off his hike along the Inca Trail in Peru, wonders how he did it. "I couldn't imagine ... what I was going to go through when I first signed up for ...