Expedition to Quehuar & its Inca (Dynamited) Mummy (1999)

Quehuar (Quewar) (6,130 m / 20,111 ft) is an isolated peak in NW Argentina. In February 1999 I co-directed an expedition to Quehuar with Constanza Ceruti and Jose Antonio Chavez. We decided to climb Quehuar primarily as a way for our international team to acclimatize, prepare physically, and work together before attempting an excavation on the higher peak of Llullaillaco (6,739 m / 22,109 ft). We remained 10 days camped near the summit and recovered the remains of an Inca mummy that had been dynamited by looters years before. Our experience on Quehuar proved critical to our success on Llullaillaco a few weeks later. NOTE: This video consists of documentary footage. Archaeologists occasionally provide information in English and Spanish, but it otherwise lacks narration. It uses only free online music, and it has not been edited to make it shorter and more entertaining. But it is as far as I could get before other work intervened and made improvements something for the distant future. Suggestions are welcome. [email protected] PHOTO ALBUMS (Related) 1. Quehuar Expeditions (1981 & 1999): https://goo.gl/photos/e1rEKvNGqVg8mMdB9 2. Llullaillaco Expeditions of 1999: https://goo.gl/photos/ywj62Aywdt2xh9kL8 PUBLICATIONS 1. A PDF of an academic article about our research on Quehuar in 1999: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MdYGk8vpk... 2. A PDF of popular accounts of the Quehuar & Llullaillaco expeditions in 1999 is in Chapters 10-12 of “The Ice Maiden” (2006 revised edition): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZfRXHGwPc... 3. Para un relato popular de los preparativos iniciales y expediciones a Quehuar y Llullaillaco, véanse los capítulos 10-12 de “The Ice Maiden” en español: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zV... 4. "Inca Rituals & Sacred Mountains: A Study of the World's Highest Archaeological Sites" (co-author Constanza Ceruti 2010) is an academic publication that includes the results of investigations of several high-altitude Inca sites (using Llullaillaco as the case study): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f-kcIt4zE... VIDEOS (Related) 1. Llullaillaco Expedition Documentary (1999):    • Expedition to Llullaillaco - The World's H...   2. Llullaillaco Expedition (1999) & Laboratory Research https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x64bah4 3. Chañi Expedition Documentary (2000):    • Expedition to Chañi, Sacred Mountain of th...   4. Ampato Expedition (1995) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x2pR8Imu1... 5. Sara Sara Expedition (1996) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UjvozhJZf... 6. Pichu Pichu Expedition (1996) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wsSY3fih4... NOTE: Links to photo albums, publications, and videos relating to other high-altitude archaeology expeditions in the Andes can be found at www.johanreinhard.net.