At over 16,000 feet, Peru’s Rainbow Mountain is hard to reach — and its bright colors are hard to miss on social media. 

After a community effort to build an access road and usher in tourists succeeded, fame has proven to be a blessing and a curse for the Indigenous community that sits beneath it.


On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Marcelo Rochabrun and Sarah Holder trace how the community turned Rainbow Mountain into a global tourism destination — and the money, violence and tragedy that followed.

At over 16,000 feet, Peru&rsquo;s Rainbow Mountain is hard to reach &mdash; and its bright colors are hard to miss on social media. After a community effort to build an access road and usher in tourists succeeded, fame has proven to be a blessing and a curse for the Indigenous community that sits beneath it.
 On today&rsquo;s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg&rsquo;s Marcelo Rochabrun and Sarah Holder trace how the community turned Rainbow Mountain into a global tourism destination &mdash; and the money, violence and tragedy that followed.

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Murder on Rainbow Mountain

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