Mount Alluci

Mount Alluci is an eastern Peruvian refuge framed by both apocalyptic prophecy and property speculation. The northern slope becomes the destination of a small American religious colony awaiting the end of the world, while an earlier message casts the mountain as a sanctuary that will outlast the destruction of the nations.

Setting and the Colony

A newspaper feature describes a new religious colony on Mount Alluci’s northern slope in eastern Peru. Two dozen Americans have followed Elihu Littlejohn Carter, known as the Last Prophet, to the desolate site, where they confidently await the end of the world. The account establishes the mountain not merely as remote terrain but as the chosen setting for a community organized around an expectation of catastrophe.

Sanctuary and Property

An earlier prophetic message identifies Mount Alluci as a place of righteousness where believers should gather when the evil nations destroy one another with fire and plague. The instruction joins spiritual refuge to an unusually practical demand: followers are told to acquire as much unentailed land as possible with clear title, on the expectation that real-estate prices will rise sharply after the anticipated disaster begins. The promise of sanctuary is thus bound to ownership, legal title, and advance investment.

Significance to Mr. West

The newspaper report gives Mount Alluci an immediate consequence in Mr. West’s life. After reading about the colony and its end-of-world expectations, he feels numb and disoriented, then books a flight to Lima for the following day. The account does not state that he reaches the mountain, but it makes the place the focus of his sudden journey. Across the two references, Mount Alluci is both a promised refuge from worldwide destruction and a real destination associated with a living community preparing for it.