Tinkuy
Created in the stunning Vilcanota Range of the Southern Andes of Peru, 'Tinkuy' brings us to a world in the process of emerging from the clouds. Atop craggy passes and in valleys still free from roads, alpacas outnumber people, condors carry good fortune on enormous wings, and families subsist on potatoes they collectively coax from vertical mountain slopes. Within this landscape is the Community of Q'eros, comprised of five indigenous communities balanced on the edge of the sierra and the fertile jungle below. From their perch at 14,000 feet, the Q'eros believe that they are the last existing population directly descended from the Incas, attributing their survival of the Spanish Conquest to protection provided by their sacred mountains, the Apus. more...