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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada, Mark Synnott (MR) free climbs on first pitch of upper wall, Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall rock climb.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott belays as Alex Lowe leads extreme aid climbing high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic, big wall rock climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley. (MR)
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  • Expedition members exult after the first ascent of the north face of Great Sail Peak, an arctic big wall climb on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • 3,000 feet above the ground on a huge, overhanging granite cliff - the northernmost big wall climb yet attempted at the time - mountaineer Greg Child pounds a piton into a thin crack that is the only route upwards.  He is lit by frigid midnight sun, north of the Arctic Circle, and progress was so slow that the team required nearly a month to complete the route.
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  • Alex Lowe solo climbs difficult Practice Wall (5.11), a rock climb in Hyalite Canyon, near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Greg Child & Mark Synnott endure extended rain in portaledge camp high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall rock climb.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vinson Expedition. Dr.Lis Densmore (MR) builds snow wall below continent's highest summit to protect camp from high polar winds. Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Tourists explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. In the far background are peaks of the Wall Range.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott & Greg Child (MR) endure rain & wind during descent from month-long, big wall rock climbing expedition on Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. A rock climbing expedition prepares to lower huge haul bags that are used to drag food, water and equipment up a big wall climb.  This load was so heavy that the friction generated by a braking device almost melted the rope.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) reaches summit of Great Sail Peak after month-long big wall climb above Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. A sleepy Mark Synnott belays a climber from inside his Portaledge, high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb.
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  • 3,000 feet above the ground on a huge, overhanging granite cliff - the northernmost big wall climb yet attempted at the time - mountaineer Greg Child pounds a piton into a thin crack that is the only route upwards.  He is lit by frigid midnight sun, north of the Arctic Circle, and progress was so slow that the team required nearly a month to complete the route.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Jared Ogden (MR) during big wall climbing expedition to Great Sail Peak in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Climbers on steep lower wall, Great Sail Peak (Stewart Valley)
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada.  Alex Lowe (MR) ascends rope above hanging camp on Great Sail Peak, on last day of month-long, Arctic big wall climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe aid climbs high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall rock climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • Tourists explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. In the far background are peaks of the Wall Range.
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  • Tourists explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. In the far background are peaks of the Wall Range.
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  • Tourists explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. In the far background are peaks of the Wall Range.
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  • Tourists explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica, a home to Gentoo Penguins. In the far background are peaks of the Wall Range.
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  • Tourists explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. In the far background are peaks of the Wall Range.
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  • Tibetan Buddhist religious icons, including prayer flags, a mani [prayer] wall and a sacred chorten frame Mounts Ama Dablam (R), Lhotse & Everest (far left, only very top showing.)
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Mt. Everest (8850m), behind massive Lhotse-Nuptse wall & S. Face of 8501m Lhotse (R), viewed from Tengboche monastery.
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Tibetan Buddhist mani stones, carved with prayers and placed in a wall beside a trail in Thame village, Khumbu region.
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  • A hiker overlooks peaks of the Continental Divide in Montana's Glacier National Park.  Immediately behind him is The Garden Wall and Logan Pass. He is standing on the slopes of Mount Gould, high above the Highline Trail.
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  • Hikers trek along the Highline Trail in Montana's Glacier National Park.  The mountain In front of them is The Garden Wall.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Rock climbers's haul bags on Great Sail Peak after month-long big wall expedition. Stewart Valley & frozen lake bkg.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING. Alex Lowe & Greg Child sleep atop Great Sail peak after month-long big wall climb on north face of an arctic cliff.
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  • Expedition members exult after the first ascent of the north face of Great Sail Peak, an arctic big wall climb on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott (MR) free climbs below summit of Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb above Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada.  Alex Lowe (MR) ascends rope above hanging camp on Great Sail Peak, on last day of month-long, Arctic big wall climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe aid climbs high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall rock climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) aid climbs high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall rock climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) monitors climbing progress on radio from Portaledge camp on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING. Alex Lowe in portaledge camp high on overhanging granite wall on Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Jared Ogden (MR) wakes up in hanging Portaledge camp, halfway up Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada, Mark Synnott views midnight sun from Portaledge camp, halfway up Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Greg Child (MR) makes awkward aid climbing moves during rain storm high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb above Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Greg Child climbs into storm above Portaledge camp, halfway up Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall rock climb.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Jon Catto, Greg Child & Mark Synnott (MR) set up a hanging Portaledge camp, high on upper headwall of Great Sail Peak, a 4,000-vertical-foot, overhanging granite wall.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott, exhausted by hauling huge bags up Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb above Stewart Valley. Jared Ogden helps. (MR)
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Portaledge bivouac camp, during big wall rock climbing expedition on Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Big wall rock climbing camp half way up Great Sail Peak, a huge Arctic cliff above Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe prepares to rappel, high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Alex Lowe (MR) makes difficult hook moves, aid climbing high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall rock climb.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. John Catto films Jared Ogden & Mark Synnott (MR) high on 4000' granite face of Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb.
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  • A mountaineer aid climbs high up a big wall on Great Sail Peak, a massive cliff on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND,  Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe & John Catto (MR) relax after long day climbing on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott (MR) eats freeze-dried dinner during Great Sail Peak big wall climbing expedition.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott (MR), belays from bosun's chair on north face of Great Sail Peak (Arctic big wall rock climb) as he sorts through hardware that includes cams, pitons, slings, carabiners, ropes, etc.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) uses drill to place bolt for belay station on  Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall rock climb.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Greg Child (MR) sorts equipment for Arctic big wall climb on huge Great Sail Peak, above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott (MR), tired from hauling heavy load up Great Sail Peak during Arctic big wall climb.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) harnesses up at start of Great Sail Peak big wall climbing expedition.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Village east of Nyingchi, where stone walls surround potato fields and stones hold shingles onto roofs.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott (MR) rappels down huge Great Sail Peak after ferrying loads to a high camp.
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  • Jan Tiura rock climbs at Planet Granite, a gym in Belmont, California.
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  • Marty Steiger rock climbs at Planet Granite, a gym in Belmont, California.
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  • A boy sells nuts to passersby on a street in  Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Gentoo Penguins stand in a rookery surrounding Port Lockroy Museum on tiny Goudier Island, Antarctica.  The background mountain is on Anvers Island.
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  • INDIA, Ladakh. Earthen house near Leh, beside road to Kargil.
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  • Ladakh, India. Old fortress palace in Leh.
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  • Sherpa women and a child work in their field in Namche Bazaar.
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  • Conrad Anker ascends a rope high on Rakekniven ("The Razor"), a towering granite fin in the Filchner Mountains of Antarctica's Queen Maud Land.  Behind are the Fenris Mountains.
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  • PERUVIAN ARCHAEOLOGY.  Horse pack train on ancient Inca Trail passes through "halca" grasslands above Unamen village in Peru's Cordillera Central, in upper Amazon headwaters. (Andes Mountains)
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  • Jay Jensen organizes rope on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. John Catto (MR) carries heavy haul bag up Great Sail Peak, above Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. John Catto (MR) carries heavy haul bag up Great Sail Peak, above Stewart Valley.
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  • Jan Tiura rock climbs at Planet Granite, a gym in Belmont, California.
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  • A Sherpa women works in her field in Namche Bazaar.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING, ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe in Portaledge camp 1700' up Rakekniven spire, Filchner Mountains, Queen Maud Land.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. Golden temple roof at Sera Monastery.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada, Jared Ogden jumars above bivvy high on Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe, bathed in Arctic midnight sun, rappels from day's high point on upper wall of Great Sail Peak, an extreme northern big-wall rock climb.
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  • Rock patterns, possibly symbolizing jaguar eyes, adorn a wall at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture that dominated northern Peru about 600 years ago.
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  • Rock patterns, possibly symbolizing jaguar eyes, adorn a wall at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture that dominated northern Peru about 600 years ago.
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  • Finely-crafted windows punctuate the log wall of an historic house relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, in a taiga forest near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • Finely-crafted windows punctuate the log wall of an historic house relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • Intricate carvings and a window punctuate the log wall of an historic house relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • Handmade Indian necklaces hang on a wall in San Juan de Yanayacu village in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
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  • Stone wall at Chachapoyan fort at Cuelap pre-dates the Inca.
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  • Intricate shingles and a tiny window punctuate the wall of an historic house relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • Chilean men converse beside a wall mural near Pablo Naruda's house in Santiago, Chile.
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  • Mountaineer Mark Synnott dozes during a ten hour belay as Alex Lowe leads extreme aid climbing on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big-wall rock climb on Canada's Baffin Island. (An automatic belay device would catch a fall).
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  • ROCK CLIMBING. Climbing hardware stored at a big-wall belay station, including (L to R) chocks, camming devices (cams), slings & pitons. Great Sail Peak expedition, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) clowns during Arctic big-wall climbing expedition on Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) leads a very difficult aid pitch, high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big-wall rock climb. If he falls, all anchors (except his belay) could pull out.
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  • Travelers in Peru's Cordillera Central walk below the imposing fortress walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
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  • A traveler in Peru's Cordillera Central approaches a narrow entrance between the imposing fortress walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
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  • Peruvian archaeologist Dr. Peter Lerche examines ancient patterns he believes to symbolize eyes that are built into many walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
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  • Travelers in Peru's Cordillera Central stand atop one of the fortress walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
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  • Peruvian archaeologist Dr. Peter Lerche sits below a narrow entrance between the imposing fortress walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
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  • Peruvian archaeologist Dr. Peter Lerche examines a narrow entrance between the imposing fortress walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan, Chachapoyan culture.
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  • A traveler in Peru's Cordillera Central approaches the imposing fortress walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
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  • A traveler in Peru's Cordillera Central approaches the imposing fortress walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
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  • Travelers in Peru's Cordillera Central stand below a narrow entrance between the imposing fortress walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
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  • Travelers explore below fortress walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
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  • Stone walls of Chachapoyan fort at Cuelap pre-date the Inca.
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