My brother-in-law is married to a Columbian born gal, who is now an American Citizen and just yesterday got accepted to the American College of Surgeons!
Anyhow, they just bought a vacation house in Santa Maria, Columbia and invited us down.
I'm going to propose an "civilized exhibition" to Machu Pichu as part of our visit next year? year after?
My son took the ten day 'hike in', porters, guides and all. He said he got sick right after arrival and was miserable most of the trip. I spoke whith him three days after he got back to Glendora and he was still 'hugging' the commode. (ugh!)
Years ago I read an article about tall, blond, light skinned people living in the mountains of Columbia. Eventually, I had a female Columbian engineer (Zulma) working for me and she said "they are there." When you go down, keep an eye out.
Maybe they're remnants of King Solomon's miners? (I throw out a lot of radical ideas, lol.)