ALTERNATOR BOOKS MYSTERIES OF MACHU PICCHU Elizabeth Weitzman Lerner Publications Minneapolis
ca INTRODUCTION THE SEARCH BEGINS Hiram Bingham crawled up the side of a mountain on his hands and knees He barely noticed the rain falling all around him He didn't even care that there were poisonous nearby snakes
The American explorer had arrived in Peru's Andes Mountains in July 1911 He had already crossed thundering rapids on a wobbly bridge He'd thrashed through thick tropical forests And he was climbing cliffs steep enough to send him crashing thousands of feet down with just misstep one
