 Views of the Huayhuash mountain range in the distance and steep, green hillsides in the foreground make the journey to Pampan a breathtaking one.A small village with a population of approximately 400, Pampan did not exist until the early-1970s when, in the wake of the 1970 Ancash earthquake, many of the region's inhabitants were left homeless.Pampan was built from scratch out of mud bricks to serve as a new village of many victims of the earthquake.