Reforesting the Andes: One tree at a time

Reforesting the Andes: One tree at a time

The trail leads across the vast horizon  traversing sharp green slopes. A row of travelers walks on an overgrown path of stone chiseled half a millenium ago into the hillside. Thousands of feet above the valley floor thousands of feet above the snaking brown Urubamba River craggy snow-covered 17-, 18-, 19,000-foot peaks reach toward the heavens. They are not just mountains.  They’re Apus.  The word means “señor,” “elder,” or “the honored ones” i…