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February 17, 2003
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Nevado Ampato, Peru
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1995
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Stephen Alvarez
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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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