![]() The pilot banked and descended, aiming for a clearing along a riverbank.Īmong those stepping from the helicopter was an archaeologist named Chris Fisher. There were no signs of human life-not a road, a trail, or a wisp of smoke. Flocks of egrets flew below, and the treetops thrashed with the movement of unseen monkeys. Beyond it lay a valley surrounded by serrated peaks: an unblemished landscape of emerald and gold, dappled with the drifting shadows of clouds. Picking his way through the summits, the pilot headed for a V-shaped notch in a distant ridge. Below, farms gradually gave way to steep sunlit slopes, some covered with unbroken rain forest, others partially stripped for cattle ranching. On February 18, 2015, a military helicopter lifted off from a shabby airstrip near the town of Catacamas, Honduras, and headed toward the mountains of La Mosquitia on the northeast horizon. ![]() ![]() This story appears in the October 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. ![]()
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