The most up I’ve ever done in my life is climbing up the Andes mountains for two days to reach the Dead Woman’s Pass on the Inca Trail. I’ll never forget the experience and sometimes forget just hard it really was.
Categories: Foot Prints, Peru and the Inca Trail, travel
Emily Carter ~ Nature as Art 
These images should easily refresh your memory, wow! How old is this?
This is from last May, so just under a year ago. Hardest thing I’ve ever done, But I’d do it again!
Wow! It’s hard to convey how steep a mountain (or anything else) is with the monocular vision of a camera, you really pulled it off!
Easy to do when the angles are so steep Jerry. 🙂
those steps look as naturally occurring as the grass and rocks and hills…my eyes walked up them and still do…thank you for bringing me there
The funny thing is Liana, some are the original inca steps, others are built in recent times to help erosion on the trail. They look the same though. The stone they use is amazing, it doesn’t wear down.
I just love them…so glad you shared them with me (us)
What a trek. I’d probably think twice about going to a place called Dead Woman’s Pass. 🙂 Beautiful photos.
It was such a glorious, life changing experience. Once you get to the pass, it’s well worth the pain.
Nowhere better than going up in LIFE!!! Happy Friday – Happy Weekend:)
No way…down is so much more fun! (ok..harder though) 🙂
That looks like quite a climb! Amazing!
You have NO idea Phil. I trained for four years to do this hike successfully.
Oooh long and steep stairs… Nice pictures, Emily!! And I really like the overall effect when they’re displayed on top of each other like that 🙂
Thousands and thousands of stairs that never seem to end. When I got to the hotel at the end of the four-day trek, they had one set of stairs. I’d stand there for several minutes saying to myself….no…no more stairs…
You must have a good set of lungs to breath the thin air.
Actually, I really don’t. I had exercise induced asthma and between this hike and 3 months of bronchitis this winter, I am now a full-blown asthmatic. Didn’t stop me though. I just went really really slow. It took ten breaths at the top (13,700 feet) before taking a step.
Wow, 13.7feet. Then there is hope for me. I’ve only done 6000 climbing close to the glacier. Of course, I was younger then. 😛
“Start climbing the stairs without thinking how steep are the stairs or how many stairs are there!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
You helped me climb the stairs!!!
This is so true and wish I knew this wisdom when I started hiking. It’s far better to think one step at a time, then seeing the true challenge.
Just wonderful…. I will go. Oh yes, I will go.
When you go..I go…
Step by step – excellent captured… 🙂
Literally Drake. Thank you so much!
What a great adventure.
It truly was. Thank you so much!
I love the height you get with the images, and I can feel your pain as you climbed up, I don’t know that I would do it.
I’m so happy that I did this trek last year. I don’t think I’d ever be able to do it again. With the steep grades of the hills, it’s easy to show the height. 🙂