About the Author

Johan Reinhard is currently (2007) an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and a Senior Research Fellow at the Mountain Institute, Washington, D.C. He is a recipient of the 1987 Rolex Award for Enterprise in the field of exploration, and in 1992 he received the Puma de Oro, Bolivia's highest award in the field of archaeology. Dr. Reinhard has conducted research in the Andean countries of Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, and Ecuador since 1980.