The Hidden Route to Machu Picchu - By Mark Adams (The New York Times)

On July 24, 1911,  Hiram Bingham III, a Yale history lecturer who was researching a biography of Simón Bolívar, climbed a 2,000-foot-tall slope in the Peruvian Andes and encountered an abandoned stone city of which no record existed. It was Machu Picchu ... read more