The Outpost

Anthropologist Anne Ryan had been content for a long time at the small Denver college where she taught. But gradually tedium had settled over her and she began to feel the need for some excitement in her life. Perhaps a summer return to field study would give her a new jolt of energy. The opportunity to be the first to record the culture of a small native community in southern Mexico was too good to turn down. Towering above the village, the mysterious rumbling mountain was forbidden to all...