Hiking the Inka Trail to Machu Picchu had always been a bucketlist trip for me. So when I quit my day job in 2013 to become a full time photographer, I took the opportunity to do it. Traveling with my good friend, we met lots of great people on the trail. And when we successfully made it to Machu Picchu it felt like we had done something hard. Something we had to push ourselves to complete. Which gave us confidence to conquer other challenges in our daily lives.

I’ll never forget the Inka Cola we enjoyed that night, quads throbbing and calves stinging.