As we hiked up a final ridge, muleteer Ali Baba (he assured us that was his name) used the opportunity to pelt everybody with snowballs, a prank I hadn't expected to experience in .
Finally, on a muleteer's grudging tip, Bingham crawled up the peak known as Machu Picchu.
Said one muleteer: "Those rations are all right if you've got to eat them, as we had to during a siege; but, don't misunderstand me, Miss, to tell you the truth, they are not our .