"Of course, right now I’m filling a different proverbial bucket. It’s 3:30 a.m. midwinter in the Andes and my stomach isn’t exactly enchanted with the altitude. While the rest of the group arrived a week earlier to acclimate, I didn’t have that luxury and now am paying the price. Which is why trip leader Yurek Majcherczyk, a Pole who has led trips in Peru for 30 years, has decided to link superlatives: Trek at 12,000 feet into Colca Canyon, the world’s deepest, to acclimate, and then backpack to the headwaters of the world’s greatest river. It’s the perfect combo trip, putting the Amazon within reach of anyone willing to work for it. While the Colca drains to the Pacific Ocean, it puts you in striking distance of the Amazon, just over the Continental Divide. Majcherczyk is here assessing the commercial feasibility of his plan, bringing me along as an hypoxic guinea pig..."
- Eugene Buchanan
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