I Have Heard Of Living Life On The Edge,

but living in these homes, 

photograph Mabel Duran gives the phrase a new meaning! 

photograph source, “We are not going to move from this place, because this is our daily work place,” one yatiri recently told Reuters. “But we are going to take care of the soil, especially the rainwater, we are going to channel it so that the water goes somewhere else.”

“The precipice in this valley is 90 degrees,” said Gabriel Pari, municipal secretary of water, sanitation, environmental management and risk. “That is precisely why we want them to leave this place, if they do not want to leave we are going to have to use force.” Some locals have suggested making offerings to the Pachamama, the goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes, “We can do an offering ceremony, we do it as a payment and in this way, the land will never move because Pachamama needs an offering,” one shaman said. “It is like giving food and this way this place will not move. On the contrary, it will stabilize.” One can only hope when the inevitable happens no one is injured.