Seen from below, what a sight!
While she cooks rice and corn for the hikers, Alicia contemplates the eternal snows on the Andes, the sun falling behind the peaks of this roof of the world.
“But what is there at the top?
A party ?
Mountaineers
returning from expeditions smile as if they had taken
drugs
!
, she said to her husband, a mountain guide.
I want to climb too, take me please.
»
These indigenous women are fighting to defend the rights of their community.
Veronique de Viguerie
Born on the ancient Inca route, they have known each other since adolescence and were married young in an Aymara ceremony.
Augustin looks at his wife: this woman, he thinks, is a force of nature, a fighter.
After two days of walking, they reach the peak of Huayna Potosí, perched 6088 meters above the clouds.
A photo immortalizes a proud, radiant Alicia, brandishing a Bolivian flag and an ice ax as a sign of victory.
She wears the outfit of the "cholas", the indigenous women...
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