Whilst in my first week at spanish school I was talking to a Norwegian guy about what he did on his weekend. "I climbed a volcano with my friend who is a guide," he was telling me whilst we had a cup of tea and munched down the free bread that they provided for us at morning tea. "It was horrible weather, very tough and not much of a view at the top because of the weather. But I would do it again." This guy was crazy...he would do it again?? "I will check it out," I told him in a blase kind of way. I had just arrived in Quito the previous week and was still adjusting to the 2850m altitude, so climbing a 5897m volcano seemed quite out of my reach at that stage.
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