Film

In the Footsteps of Taytacha

1985 · 30m · Documentary

In the Footsteps of Taytacha follows a group of Quechua-speaking musicians and dancers as they leave their remote villages high in the Andes Mountains of Peru and join thousands of other highlanders on the annual religious pilgrimage to the sacred peaks of Qoyllur-Rití. Quollur-Rití, the largest and most important religious ritual in the southern Andes, occurs only five days out of the year and involves walking both day and night in terrain over 4400 meters in altitude.

• Harriet GordonDirector
• Peter GetzelsDirector

Release date

January 1, 1985

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

30m

Genres

Documentary