
ASHLI AKINS
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER | storyteller. researcher. activist.
PHOTOGRAPHY
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The world's longest lockdown 2020. Some of Cusco's most crowded streets, during its busiest tourist season of the year.
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April-June 2020
Cusco, Peru
Fuji X-T100
Ashli Akins
Apu Ausangate
Six-day unaided trek (with two friends and one dog) circumnavigating Apu Ausangate, one of the most sacred and highest peaks of the Cusco region of Peru. At our highest, we summited (three times) to 5200 metres (17,000 feet) above sea level.
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June 2019
Ausangate, Peru
Canon 5D Mark II & Fuji X-T100
Ashli Akins
Lucía La Alpaquera
Accompanying alpaquera Lucia Mamani of the Illariy Ch'aska Women's Cooperative, as she herds her alpacas and sheep through a rainstorm, high in the Andean mountains above her tiny community of Cancha Cancha, which sits at 4000 metres above sea level.
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