Dark. Utterly dark. The tunnel accessing the former quarry in El Chiflón del Diablo (The Devil’s Blast) branches out into several smaller shafts, where miners used to extract coal.
A river of clouds blanketing the pass as each footstep feels heavier than the last. I was hiking along the Dead Woman’s Pass on the Inca trail in Peru in November 2018.
In the hillsides of central Honduras lies Santa Inés micro watershed, a region rich in natural resources but, as in many areas in Central America, facing poverty and pressing social and environmental challenges.
On the steep, westernmost slopes of the Chuchumatanes mountains in Guatemala, a string of villages nestled between forests and cornfields make up the Mam Mayan town of San Juan Atitán.
