The Inca Trail stretches approximately 43 km and usually takes four days to complete, leading hikers through a variety of terrains, from lush cloud forests to high-altitude mountain passes. The final ...

This story is part of the September 28 edition of Sunday Life. See all stories. Morning mist shrouds the Santa Teresa River as I scramble towards a mountain pass that’s tangled in jungle foliage.

If you’re planning to trek Machu Picchu’s Inca Trail in 2018, you’ll want to bookmark October 1 in your agenda, as permits will be released a full four months ahead of normal schedule. While the first ...

It isn't the tumbling view of the valley, as it vanishes into a blanket of mist that has our undivided attention. Or the boys from nearby Quishuarani village as they play football on the school field ...

While on the Inca Trail, every step — past ancient ruins, up stone staircases and over Dead Woman's Pass — brings hikers closer to their final goal: reaching Machu Picchu. Trains and buses drop ...

They usually mend bones and restore mobility—but for four epic days in the Peruvian Andes, two orthopaedic surgeons and their friends traded scalpels for trekking poles, testing their own joints and ...

One rainy July day in 1911, after an arduous journey through the dense jungle of the Urubamba Valley in deepest Peru, the American academic and adventurer, Hiram Bingham, came upon the sculpted ...