The following article is an approach to the work of two anthropologists that in different moments crossed the Sierra Madre of Mexico. On one hand there is the expedition realized by the Norwegian Lumholtz in 1890 that run over there for one year in the back of a mule coexisting with different communities and indigenous groups between which the Tarahumara are. In this expedition Lumholtz realized an exhaustively written and photographic record. On the other hand there is the anthropologist Paul Salopek who throughout nine months between 1998 and 1999, also solitary and in the back of a mule, re-did Lumholtz's route, putting forth of the transformations of the indigenous communities.