They were apparently murdered during a trek through the high Andes.
Obviously, the cold, high Andes support very different species than do the low tropical rain forests.
Some researchers believe that by 2030, many of the large ice caps on the highest Andes will be gone if current climate trends continue.
But most people along this road, both here in the jungle and in the high Andes, want to see it paved.
These small shrubs are native to the high Andes of Peru.
How did the Incas build great cities in the high Andes?
They live in inaccessible forest and grassland regions of the high Andes.
You have to come around through the valley with the high Andes nearby, and often fog is rolling in from the Pacific.
It is found in the high Andes of Ecuador.
The meat was, and still is, preserved by being sun-dried in the high Andes into a product known as charqui.