A while back I was looking around the deserts of southern Peru when I came to this small military outpost. I stopped at the mess tent to ask the soldiers questions about stuff they might have seen on patrols into the desert. I noticed that they had a young condor tied by the foot that they would feed scrapes of meat to from the cook tent.

In the picture you can see the bird jumped up on my leg thinking I might have something for it to eat. I did not, but the bird thought the image printed on my t-shirt might be worth a bite. In one and a half seconds that little buzzard grabbed the cloth an inch below my collar and ripped the entire front of my t-shirt off.

Now, on to the other photos, I asked the guys what kind of interesting things they had run into out in the desert back towards the mountains. They told me about a lot of stuff but when one of the guys told me he had seen through his binoculars what he thought was mummies, he got my attention. The guys were at the end of their day patrol and hadn’t had a chance to walk the extra five miles over to check out what the guy with the glasses had seen. I pulled out a map and had the guy show me where he had seen the bodies. I drove to a nearby town and found a guy who let me rent a dirt bike.