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What goes on when an adventure vacation specialist-whois never really done something daring-attempts to re-generate the initial journey to Machu Picchu? September 24, 1911, was each day for the real history books. For on that stormy day, the small Yale professor Hiram Bingham III rose in to the Andes Mountains of Peru and experienced an old town in the clouds: the now-famous citadel of Machu Picchu. Media stories have recast the idol traveler for discovering among the world's best historical sites like a villain who smuggled out invaluable items and took credit, almost a hundred years later.