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PHOTO OF THE DAY February 17, 2003  

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Where Nevado Ampato, Peru
When 1995
Photographer Stephen Alvarez

Climbers hike through ice pinnacles on Nevado Ampato, a peak in the Andes. Here Johan Reinhard, a mountaineer and anthropologist, discovered a 500-year-old Inca human sacrifice.

(Photograph taken on assignment for, but not published in, "Peru's Ice Maidens: Unwrapping the Secrets," June 1996, National Geographic magazine)

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