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A man leads his mule, loaded with supplies purchased in Cuzco, through a blizzard and over a high pass enroute to the extant Quechua-speaking Incan village of Q&#39;eros in the Peruvian Andes.

Alpaca, herded by the traditional Q&#39;eros Inca people, graze high in the Peruvian Andes after an early season snowstorm.

The alpaca herding village of the Q&#39;eros people under snow, Cordillera de Paucartambo, Peru.

Porters carrying heavy loads pass a small ruin in the jungle below the larger ruin complex of Sayaqmarka along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, Peru.

Fifth grade students on lunch break sit together in their school uniforms by a blue doorway in Paucartambo, Peru.

An elderly man, following the Andean tradition, weaves himself a new hat from alpaca wool at the textile market in Chinchero, Peru.

A traditional Andean family relaxes among the ruins of the Inca fortress at Ollantaytambo, Sacred Valley, Peru.

The son of a coca farmer sits outside his home in the upper valley of the Madre de Dios River in the Peruvian Amazon.

Alpaca meat hangs to dry inside a thatch hut in a herding village of the traditional Q&#39;eros people, in the Cordillera de Paucartambo of the Peruvian Andes.

A Quechua man huddles around a piece of stewed alpaca meat in a herding village of the Q&#39;eros people high in the Peruvian Andes.

Peruvian schoolchildren peer out the back of a truck as they travel to historical Inca sites around Cuzco on a national field trip day.