The Last of the Incas: Native Quechua indianson way to Quolloriti,the highest religious festival in the world,Peru.

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The Last of the Incas: Native Quechua Indians on way to Quolloriti,the highest religious festival in the world,Peru. Ausangate (Quechua: Awsanqati) is a mountain of the Cordillera Blanca range in the Andes of Peru. With an altitude of 6,384 metres it is situated around 100 kilometres southeast of Cusco. The mountain has significance in Incan mythology. Every year on the north side of Ausangate the feast of Qoyllur Rit'i (Quechua: "snow star") is celebrated before the feast of the Corpus Christi, during which thousands of Quechua pilgrims attend. The mountain was ascended by Heinrich Harrer in 1953.

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