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The Sacred Ice

A journey to Q'OLLORITTI in the southern Andes of Peru, the world's highest pilgrimage...

NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE follows a group of pilgrims from the village of Chincheros as they make their way to a shrine which sits 16,000 feet above sea level to participate in this extraordinary festival.

Supposedly the celebration of a 17th Century apparition of Christ to a llama-herder, it is in reality an ancient pagan rite from which human sacrifice has not entirely disappeared.

A Film by PAUL YULE