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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.