Using satellites and radars, the issue try to find the fabled treasure supposedly hidden the inaccessible jungle area of \u200b\u200bthe river Madre de Dios River.
The promoter of the initiative, which is preparing for two years, with the most advanced technology, is the Italian journalist and explorer Jacek Palkiewicz Polish origin.
Palkiewicz, which has been described in some twenty books their trip to the farthest corners of the globe, has extensive experience in the area, and in 1996 led an expedition that succeeded in pinpointing the sources of the Amazon River.
"This time the technology will a great help, but it remains indispensable penetrate walk in the jungle, a journey not without its dangers, "said Palkiewicz, optimistic about the chances of reaching the mythical" Paititi "as the natives called the lost city of the Incas .
A first exploration in the Amazon will be held next October, a second three months later and the final issue will be held in the spring of 2002, he said.
It will be a trip of one month with a group of twenty scholars from Italy, Peru, Poland, Brazil and Russia, accompanied by a support team of more than fifty people.
These include the Italian archaeologist Mario Polia, Catholic University of Lima and that for three decades has made a number of excavations in Peru.
The archaeologist has been recently confirmed his certainty of the existence of the mythical city because of "exceptional" unpublished documents located in the Vatican archives.
This exhaustive historical research, along with the testimony of the natives of the region and a thorough study of the terrain through the use of satellites, are the reasons that induce Palkiewicz to consider that they can succeed where many others have failed.
"After centuries of fantasies are finally tangible evidence to unravel the enigma of El Dorado" he said.
Among the biggest challenges that await explorers include the rugged terrain of the region, cut by deep ravines, adverse weather, wildlife and a possible encounter with hostile Indian tribes.
"A journey on foot through the Amazon is a physical and psychological ordeal," said Palkiewicz, an expert in survival techniques.
The expedition, with a budget of over a million dollars, will be financed by to various private sponsors.
The logistics center will be located in Cuzco (Peru) and is provided the use of helicopters to transport equipment and boats to enter a region so far unexplored.
The sponsor of the expedition has said that the discovery of the fabulous treasures that allegedly contains "El Dorado" are not his primary goal, although he admitted that under the legislation of each country a small percentage of its value can be designed to discoverers.
Palkiewicz, who has lived for years in Italy, has stressed the value of "historical, archaeological and tourist" the possible discovery of "Paititi" and said it will travel to Lima with the intention of involving the President Alejandro Toledo on his project.
The challenge to find the mythical place begins with the arrival of English conquistadors in 1532, when born the legend of a city in the jungle where the Incas would have hidden treasures of inestimable value and which have paid Atahualpa king's ransom.
Other expeditions
Because of the hostile environment and difficult terrain, the different expeditions which for centuries has been launched to search have ended in failure.
These include the tragic end of the one led by British Colonel Peter Fawcett in 1925 and the impact it had in 1970 disappearance of a French-American team led by Serge Debru browser, which was probably exterminated by the Indians huachipairi .
More recently, in 1997, the Norwegian anthropologist Lars Hafksjold disappeared without trace in the area known as "green hell" Madidi River.
However, Palkiewicz not shrink from a long list of victims of a "gold rush" which began with the English conquistador Lope de Aguirre, convinced that this time get unlock one of the few mysteries that explorers of the new millennium have inherited from the past.
Meanwhile, the possible site of "El Dorado" expects perhaps silently from their hiding lost in the depths of the jungle.
