Straying Off Trails at Machu Picchu, Peru
At Peru’s breathtaking Machu Picchu citadel perched high above the Urubamba Valley, over-adventurous tourists evade guards to access restricted Inca trails, steep ledges, or “secret” viewpoints for unique photos, slipping on loose stones or crumbling edges and plummeting hundreds of meters into the jagged valley floor with no chance of survival.
Straying from safe trails at Machu Picchu defies centuries-old warnings – straying onto glaciers without guides defies nature’s most treacherous terrain. Flip the page to New Zealand’s forbidden ice hikes, where self-guided explorers underestimate shifting crevasses and storms, paying with plunges or hypothermia far from rescue…
