This is a fantastic book. I read it several years ago and bought several copies for my friends. Then it went out of print and I was so disappointed. But now it's coming out in a new edition from Innovations Press in California. It took me from such a burned out hopeless point of view to a positive happy attitude. Watch for the new edition. I hear it will be out very soon.

I Luv it, it was so interesting! It really helped me out with my report for school!

During the lifetime of one of the last of the 13 Inca emperors who controlled parts of western coastal South America between 1200 and 1532, a girl now called Juanita summited Mt Ampato. In the ending months of 1995, nearby volcanic ash melted mountain top ice and snow, putting this mummified ICE MAIDEN OF THE ANDES in the path of mountain explorers Johan Reinhard and Miguel Zarate. The author gives an idea of how difficult high altitude archaeology can be and of how Latin American mummies such as Juanita, El Plomo and Sarita can answer scientific questions, such as verifying that the wart virus existed in the pre-Columbian western hemisphere. So Janet Buell's book reads well with David Getz's FROZEN GIRL, Nova's ICE MUMMIES: FROZEN IN HEAVEN video, Dr Reinhard's DISCOVERING THE INCA ICE MAIDEN, and Susan Vande Griek's A GIFT FOR AMPATO.

I learned about this book from my boss work. I wasn't sure I wanted to take the advice to see if it would help me get my career on track. Now I'm glad I did. It not only helped me get the fun back into my career. It also helped me with numerous other areas of my life. I would recommend it highly.

The thing that amazed me most about this book was that it didn't just eliminate my feeling of burnout at work - which was the problem that caused me to buy it. It helped in areas I wasn't even aware I needed help in, like my feelings about my church, my relationship, my music, and even the state of my finances. The exercises weren't always easy. But they worked. And as I did one and then another, I started building up a feeling of pure joy. I feel at least 10 years younger and excited about life again. This is the second book I've read by this author and both were so much more than I expected!!

I read this book about a year ago when I was trying to help a client get back on track career-wise. He had no idea what he really wanted to do with his life and was bouncing back and forth between wanting the security of staying where he was and wanting the freedom to do something more exciting and challenging. There are some very simple but powerful prodedures in this book that can be used to help yourself or a friend (or client) discover their real passion in life. It's a great book for career counselors or other people in the helping professions. Use it for yourself or to help another. Very powerful stuff!!!

The book is nicely illustrated with photos of Pazyryk grave goods and mummies. It had a few major omissions. It starts talking about the Scythians but doesn't show a map of where the Scythians lived.

It also doesn't explain whether the Scythians were Asiatic like the Pazyryk probably were. An ancient felt painting of a Scythian that the book shows suggests that the Scythians were not Asiatic. So what is the connection between the Scythians and the Pazyryk? Why is the Scythian material included?

The photo of the tattoos on the 2500-year-old mummy was stunning. It was a glimpse into an alien world.

Could the first horse riders swooping around Siberia about 2,500 years ago have been the mythological half-horse half-human Centaurs? We call them Pazyryk for the burial mounds they left in the Ukok plateau. Some of these ANCIENT HORSEMEN OF SIBERIA were women, such as the mummy known as Leti: about 25 years old, she was a tall 5'6", buried in a fine headdress and well-preserved clothing; with elaborate shoulder, thumb and wrist tattoos, was she a medicine woman or one of the legendary Amazon warriors? This fascinating read is all the more precious because there is so little available in English on the Pazyryk, other than Olga Kharitidi's reference in ENTERING THE CIRCLE, Nova's SIBERIAN ICE MAIDEN video, and Sergei Rudenko's out-of-print masterpiece FROZEN TOMBS OF SIBERIA. Author Janet Buell similarly combines clues and facts in ICE MAIDEN OF THE ANDES, the mummy found by mountaineers Johan Reinhard and Miguel Zarate (DISCOVERING THE INCA ICE MAIDEN) and the subject of David Getz's FROZEN GIRL, Nova's FROZEN IN HEAVEN video, and Susan Vande Griek's A GIFT FOR AMPATO.