His father is a medicine man. The plant is called "Buscâr no Tõcar" or, "Look, Don't Touch" or something like that. When you touch a leaf, the branch crinkles up.

El Misiti was a 13.5 hour ascent. The only climb I know of where one of the approach hazards is a barrío.

Group of anthropologists and students leave camp to head up-river exploring. It's a thirty foot dugout run with an outboard that will get it up small rapids.