Andes of my adventure begins with the cemetery.

All the monuments in the first protection not for climbers without skill. This cemetery is proof of the unpredictability of high places. Chimborazo is very high. These random large stone or piece of the glacier, and has weather that changes from minute to minute minutes to hours. Hiking to the second refuge, we could hear the pieces of rock and ice that fell in a place of high slopes.
A person who comes from England called “El Refugio Edward Whymper” is simple, not heated, but at 16 000 kaki.dia was a first time reached the top of the mountain. When somebody feels like carrying wood up to 5000 meters, the fire may increase the temperature of 3 degrees Celsius.
in this mountain We drank “mate de coca” tea made from coca leaves are also used to make other products.
Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador, about 100 miles south of the Equator. Lump Earth at the equator, making Mount Chimborazo farther out there than Everest. This is the closest point to the sun on the planet, and the coldest place in Ecuador. Very cool.
a man named Peter, guide me, wake me up at eleven o’clock that night. He frowned when he saw my sleeping bag, which packed smaller than a football. frameless my 13-ounce backpack did not seem impressed either. Peter did not say a word of English, and I was just learning Spanish, for example, that night “” (several hours) in the shack was included in the cost of $ 130. He thought I was a mountaineer.
and I had practiced once with crampons and ice axes on the sledding hill near my house. My weight, however, does not. Peter had to persuade me. that the mountain was very cold.
Soon became a mountain hiking. During one of many of my break too much, which I pretended not to understand when Peter explains in Spanish, I noticed that the thermometer I carried had bottomed out at 5 F degrees. I’m not cold, but I’m tired at the time – the time when I moved.
Continue Reading »