In the third week of June, 2013 the WindAid volunteers will install the Guinness World Record Breaking highest altitude wind turbine!  This will be the culmination of their work initiated on the 25th of May building a wind turbine from scratch.  You could be one of those volunteers!

We are organizing this installation to take place at the base of the Pastoruri glacier in the National Park of Huascarán.  The installation will benefit a community of workers who to date have never had electricity.  Not only will these shop owners, guides, and cooks be influenced by their new-found access to electricity, but so will every traveler and visitor who comes thru this highly popular area.

In addition to the countless lives this wind turbine will impact, it will also stand as a statement to both climate change, and what we can and must do about it.  Pastoruri glacier is one of the fastest receding glaciers in the world.  In ten years alone it receded over 200 meters, splitting in two in 2007.

A wind turbine at the main hub and access point to the receding Pastoruri glacier will attest to the fact that climate change is indeed a rapidly evolving, and grim event.  Peru is one of the most affected countries in the world to climate change. Pastoruri is far from their only receding Andean glacier-glaciers whose runoff supply power for Peru's 70% hydroelectric electricity production, not to mention the diminishing supply of fresh drinking water.  Installing a wind turbine will lessen demand on the glacier, while in the long run help reduce the effects of climate change due to it's electricity production with no pollution. 

All of the volunteers, workers, and tourists who are involved with this installation, and who have the opportunity to visit Pastoruri glacier will be doubly affected by the awe inspiring affects of what we as a people have done to our enviornement, and will leave with a better understanding of how we can best address the amelioration of our world.

We would like to thank the Parque Nacional de Huascarán, the Comunidad de Catac, the Provincia de Recuay, the city of Huaraz and the Department of Ancash, whos full involvement will allow this installation to be accomplished. 

If you are interested in getting involved, but can't make it down late this May, we are also accepting donations to directly fund this monumental occasion.