Forsaken

This picture, coming at the end of the second of four picture stories in the Washington Post about religious rituals affected by climate change, breaks my heart. The 100,000 indigenous participants in the Qoyllur Rit'i, held at the base of the sacred Colque Punku glacier in Peru, filled the other photos, but have now come and gone, leaving only a crucifix, whose position moves up the valley each year.