Amaru Quispe
LEAD GUIDE
Has crossed the Salkantay pass 214 times — and counting.
NOTRE HISTOIRE
For more than fifteen years, our Cusco-born team has opened its trails, tables and traditions to travelers who become, quite simply, part of ours.
LE COMMENCEMENT
Machu Picchu Glory began in 2009 with a single guide, a single Jeep, and a promise: to show the Andes the way Valentín Quispe's own family had always known them — unhurried, personal, and full of reverence for the mountains.
What started as one man leading friends-of-friends up the Salkantay trail has grown, slowly and by word of mouth, into a boutique house of private journeys — still small enough that Valentín reviews every itinerary himself, still local enough that half our guides are cousins.
MILESTONES
LEAD GUIDE
Has crossed the Salkantay pass 214 times — and counting.
MOUNTAIN GUIDE
Can name every peak on the horizon before sunrise.
HEAD PORTER
Once carried a 30kg duffel to the Sun Gate without stopping.
PORTER
Grew up herding llamas at 4,200 meters.
TRAVEL DESIGNER
Has personally scouted every boutique hotel on our routes.
TRAVEL DESIGNER
Speaks four languages and remembers every guest's birthday.
CAMP CHEF
Trained in Lima before coming home to cook his grandmother's recipes.
CAMP CHEF
Makes a pisco sour so good guests ask for the recipe at the summit.
Real trails, real families, real Andes — never a staged photo-op.
Certified guides, satellite communication and oxygen on every private route.
Carbon-neutral operations and trails we leave better than we found them.
Hotels, chefs and artisans chosen from within our own Cusco community.
COMMENCEZ VOTRE HISTOIRE
Tell us your dates, your pace and your dream — our Cusco atelier will do the rest.