January 19, 2006
Remember all those photos of us on Antisana last week? Remember the smiles, the blue skies, the incredible views, and the story of how we sat on top for over half an hour? Today we experienced the other side of mountaineering. While four of the team still ended up standing on Chimborazo’s summit (20,703 feet, Ecuador’s highest), this time we spent only 3 or 4 minutes there. Even taking pictures...
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January 18, 2006
Just heard from Adrian and four of five summited Chimbarazo. It sounds like a tough climb in hard conditions. More details to come from Adrian, but all are safe and celebrating in Banos.
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January 16, 2006
After a week of acclimatizing and exploring Ecuador, our team had a perfect summit day on 18,711 foot Antisana. Regarded as one of the most difficult of Ecuador’s glaciated peaks, Antisana sits immediately above Quito. It is a complicated mountain of 4 summits, huge crevassed glaciers, and countless seracs and ice walls. What makes route finding even more difficult is the fact that few teams...
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January 11, 2006
Our Ecuador Expedition started off on all cylinders this week. After a day in Quito and a quick trip up the new telepherique on Rucu Pinchincha (a seven minute ride takes you from the city to almost 14,000 feet on a local peak – ideal acclimatization) we headed to our first mountain of the trip, the 16,204 foot Cotocachi. Since its summit pyramid is very technical, Cotocachi is rarely visited by...
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January 8, 2006
The New Year has started off for Alpenglow in the only way we know. We are in Ecuador guiding the big glaciated volcanoes. This is the eighth year our guides have spent January in Ecuador, and, as always, we are enjoying it. It remains a perfect place for building mountaineering skills and experiencing a different culture. Our first expedition of the year is a little different though....
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