After being in the mountains and accomplishing our aim, the Chimborazo, it was time to relax and enjoy the warm climate on sea level. We splitted up in Riobamba, one went back to Colombia, we other both went through Guayaquil to the beaches of Ecuador. Out of any reason we […]
Jährliche Archive: 2012
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Finally I can present a spanish article from my climbing partner Jaime Tinoco. Hannah (Wales), Jaime (Colombia) and I (Germany) went together to explore the Ecuadorian Andes (look my english articles before). English articles about Mountaineering in Southamerica you can find here. Ecuador es conocido por tener muchas formaciones montañosas […]
Somewhat travelling not only means getting to know new places, it means as well walking towards yourself. During my travels I had the pleasure to meet great people and as well I made some really good friends. All these people formed a bit of me. Right now I’m not hitting […]
Finally, it was the “big” day to get out of the town of Riobamba and up to the mountain Chimborazo, the highest mountain of Ecuador. And the climate seemed to be nice. That was great. After a good night sleep we got ready for this big adventure and first of […]
After our retreat from Cayambe, we were happy to get to warmer regions in Ecuador. We wanted to relax before starting our last and biggest project – the Chimborazo, the highest volcano of Ecuador. It is 6.267 m high – an impressive altitude. To get easily to the base camp […]
Early in the morning, I heard someone calling my name and shaking the tent. It was the guy from Switzerland from last night. I said, you are back early and what happened. He told me that the weather was miserable and the sight was really poor, so their guide couldn’t […]
After the Cotopaxi, the Cayambe Did you actually know that there are so many Volcanos in Ecuador? Of course you did and as I’m a student of an Alexander-von-Humboldt School, I’ve to say, that this guy named the valley between the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Real „Straße der Vulkane“ […]
Yes the volcanoes of Ecuador standed on our list…we had some projects there to finish off. So after arriving in Quito, the capital of Ecuador and near the zero point, we prepared our base camp for our mountain climbing. That means that we booked in a Hostel in Quito and […]
What a trip, from Bogota to Quito en bus…exhausting but really funny and interesting. Well we need to show our passport three times! One time the military was entering in the bus and was looking at the people in there. Well when the military force had a look at me […]
Well unfortunately I could not resolve my technical problem, so i will wait until i am in Germany. For that reason I did not post. Today my trip through South America will start…let us see what kind of story I can tell afterwards 🙂