Finding Frozen Mummies in One of the World’s Tallest Mountain Ranges | Best Job Ever

Johan Reinhard is a forerunner in the study of high-altitude archaeology. Focusing on ancient peoples, his trips regularly take him up mountains, underwater, and into jungles. His team also found something you don’t see any old day: frozen Inca mummies.
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Explorers are often seen as pioneers, but National Geographic Explorer and Rolex Laureate Johan Reinhard is a pioneer in the field of exploration itself. He was a forerunner in the study of high-altitude archaeology, the research of sites at 17,000 feet and above. Focusing on ancient peoples and their cultures, Reinhard’s trips regularly take him up mountains, underwater, and deep into jungles. On expeditions to the Andes Mountains in Peru, he’s found Inca artifacts that are so well-preserved, they look brand new. He and his team also discovered something in the 1990s that you don’t find out in the field just any old day: frozen Inca mummies. The mummies, left as human sacrifices some 500 years ago, were almost perfectly preserved. His venture has since led to more than a dozen frozen Inca human sacrifices found across five mountains in the Andes! Reinhard’s exploration and discovery of the Inca artifacts was a first, as the sites had been virtually inaccessible before then due to the high altitudes.
You might call Reinhard an “explorer’s explorer” - he isn’t just going out and studying places that other explorers have already covered. As a high-altitude archaeologist, Reinhard sets his sights on new, uncharted territory and discovers historical treasures for the very first time.
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Finding Frozen Mummies in One of the World’s Tallest Mountain Ranges | Best Job Ever
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[@oliviabridges8908]

The way he pulled her out like she ISNT a freaking dead frozen human and it gave “its a big rock” vibes instead of “it’s a freaking mummy”

[@Yasuke4d]

Dang!! She got micro braids 😯 @1:10

[@lms5608]

Imagine we could revive these people

[@random95725]

The stories they could tell

[@artifach]

No, please. Let them have their peace

[@brokemalone7011]

I read it " Friend Zoning Mummies"

[@maka1685]

Too much pot?

[@Maratrushka]

Wow!

[@messi2882]

Cool!

[@jessiejames7492]

there were two other younger chldren found with her......i cant find the full documentary. watchd it some years back. too bad.

[@badzsumampong]

I uave read this article on National Geographic magazine early y2k and the boy with her was her younger brother who carries his slingshot with him because he believes life after death. The author also said that the relatives of these children could be possibly known thru dna for their teeth are still intact.

[@dilinidilini2112]

Yes. Best job ever

[@richardjewel9600]

Truly Amazed Me. ... wo ow

[@trishannbell5508]

I wouldn't want to be on top of big rocks!

[@I.witness.2000]

How to find full episode

[@aimanhafeez9079]

Poor kid couldn't live her full life.....

[@cardibibaby5131]

It’s sad because they don’t get to live a better lide

[@jessiejames7492]

Or RIP

[@VloggerFromTheSouth]

I could have got a mini heart attack...

[@meriembekay7637]

How did they know it's there

[@sarmadbaloch432]

Same thoughts

[@benkraze3103]

History. Every place on earth has their own history.

[@Rohosso99]

[@mstreasureseeker]

Change that music!

[@XoxoMoot]

Couldn't have peace in life nor death!😢

[@adidominguez6849]

guys im scared

[@gabriellzb1516]

Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@julieoink8835]

Well ok

[@iamacowhello5910]

thats argentina not peru!!!!!

[@simono.w.2995]

thats peru not argentinia!!!!!

[@iamacowhello5910]

Damned Jerry i dont know were are you from but i am from argentina and those momies where found in mount llullaiyaco in a province called salta. Allmost all the years i visit the museam were they are!

[@simono.w.2995]

martin cornejo hell I dunno. I dont think that National Geographic is wrong though.

[@Luzi4n4]

martin cornejo I'm also from Argentina, and it's true, those mummies are from llullailaco in Argentina, and nowadays they are in the Museo de Alta Montaña in Salta!

[@iamacowhello5910]

I am from salta*****

[@kenmeri5832]

4 than?

[@FWGVoid]

first

[@q8ib_622]

second

[@tanrayan40]

Reinhart

[@jae9169]

ikr

[@lunchen69]

Didn't mention the truth about how those people who became mummies. Hard to feel moved by a well edited video knowing the true savagery behind radicalized beliefs.

[@deathstroketheterminator814]

lunchen69 It said they were part of Inca sacrifices.

[@lunchen69]

Deathstroke the Terminator Sacrifices based on radicalized beliefs where ignorance led to the torture and death of these children. I just have a hard time being moved by this video knowing the truth they have uncovered.

[@SuperParamorefan567]

Racist

[@TheHG12]

@@lunchen69 With that logic you could never be moved or interested in anything in human history. It almost always rested on savagery and death....

[@nilascocaguimbal1882]

500 years ago, these children were chosen to keep a good harvest or to appease the Gods. People from their time knew nothing about mercy. It's their way of life and you can't fault them for not knowing science.

[@lilldewitte7411]

Is she still alive tho?

[@POV.sv.]

no-

[@rowenareyes8117]

_sso

[@xcominitiative5166]

third

[@alysoza2096]

Q terrible

[@blzurd4792]

Tell me who dislikes this who?

[@messieurbonkers]

Jon ikr

[@VloggerFromTheSouth]

Those who were afraid...hahah

[@chazip8436]

a dickhead