Even now it remains more difficult to get to than most other Maya sites (save for Yaxchilán, which still requires a one-hour jungle boat ride to reach). Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya ...

Video by Andy Bardon of Mayan Smith-Gobat climbing The Salathé Wall, El Capitan, Yosemite. Absolute void, small overlaps, ever steepening terrain and a beautiful crack which begins with poor jams and ...

Its walls and buildings are adorned with frescoes ... the social and economic dynamics of the late classical period of the ...