Peru's Sacred Glacier Is Melting

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These Ukukus have broken the ban on removing ice to carry a piece back to Cuzco, one hundred miles away, to use in a Corpus
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These Ukukus have broken the ban on removing ice to carry a piece back to Cuzco, one hundred miles away, to use in a Corpus Christi procession.

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