The group.....

So here's great shot of the group we had for the first week down there, a mix of SBU and Case Western People.  On the right is me at the absolute top of Wayna Picchu, the mountain directly next to Machu Picchu that I missed out on last year because I was too far back in line.  No such problem this time around... Oh, and that is a near vertical drop of several hundred feet on to sides there, wet rock, etc...  Let's just say that a guy turned the corner with his wife whilst I was out there and asked how hard it was.  I looked down the side he couldn't see and said, "well it's a little slipery and difficult, but more than doable.... you just don't want to fall down that side."  At the sound of that his wife burst into tears and started whining, "don't go PLEASE don't go, I don't want you to die," while she was pretty much hyperventilating (really working on that PaCO2, is that too dorky a joke?).  I mean it was hard but not like he was going to die... note to self, don;t make possible death jokes to crazy looking wives about their fragile looking husbands.....