At the top of Dead Woman's Pass, 4215 meters
Near noon on the second day we reached the summit of Dead Woman's Pass
at 4215 m. Nothing in this photo suggests how hard we worked to reach
the summit, how relieved we were to make it, or how high it
is. (Higher than Mt. Fuji.) The camera angle is looking down the trail
towards where we had started the day at 3100 m. The summit of the
mountain ridge in the distant background was roughly level with our
position. A package of 4 Oreo cookies that I'd bought in Urubamba the
prior day had expanded like a balloon due to the low
pressure. Pictured are: Ernesto (our guide), Rob & Luciana, Elaine
(crouching), Katie & Mark, Chris B., Mark N., Anders, and Mark S.
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