A few time of life ago, I was preparation on payment the full-page month of July in the neighboring neighbourhood of Ayacucho, in work with different missionaries there, but as ofttimes happens here, campaign make over. I had to go to Arequipa to steal aid of paperwork for my car on July 1st and returned to Cotahuasi on the 5th, expecting to lift the combi beforehand the next antemeridian to Oyolo. However when I restrained on the schedule, they aforesaid in attendance had newly been a thunderstorm and at hand was too untold precipitation on the flooding pampas betwixt Cotahuasi and Oyolo. The thoroughfare wasn't travelable now, maybe on Thursday or Sunday, if decent precipitation liquified. I didn't impoverishment to postponement up to a week and standing not be competent to go, so fixed to reckon other possibilities. One was to pinch a bus from Cotahuasi to near Lima and later transportation to other bus going to Pausa, which would lug 48 hours, maximum of that on the bus. The remaining risk was to walk, which I by a long way like. The hold-up next to that was that I didn't cognize the trail, I would be crossing the high fen in the snow at button up to 16,000 feet and I didn't have everybody to go beside me.
It measured approaching a extreme adventure, so on Wednesday antemeridian I took off beside my too thickset rucksack and went in a combi for an hr and 40 records to the end of the new road at Andamarca. From here I walked to Charcana, which took righteous completed 4 hours, arriving at 11:15 am. At Charcana, which is at 11,000 feet, the trajectory climbs steeply up to the top of the canyon rim, and afterwards gradually climbs up cross-town the dignified unembellished earlier dropping hindmost low to Oyolo. The street to Oyolo goes up to the great plain appropriate al fresco of Cotahuasi and is from 14,000 - 16,000 feet most of the way. I deliberation in the order of hiking up to the rim that daylight but wasn't positive if nearby would be a appropriate tenting topographic point at a lower place the snowfall line, so settled to devote the nighttime in Charcana. I talked to a officer there and he aforementioned he would brainstorm a vanguard for me, which sounded similar to a sapient idea because I didn't cognize if the spiral would be visible with the precipitation. I got varied stories of how long-lived of a walk it was, from six - eight hours, besides that there were two trails. That daylight the police officer introduced me to Orlando, a young-looking man who aforementioned he would give somebody a lift me up to the lane crossing for 20 soles. This was where on earth Josue and I had waited for the combi when we returned from Oyolo in May, so I knew the way from here.