Day trip to Cotopaxi - 7th Feb

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There is such a sense of tranquility in the National Park with no-one around you - except for the guy on the left!
For anyone who doesn’t know about Cotopaxi, it’s one of the highest active volcanoes in the world (the summit is at 5,897m above sea level). Before you ask, no, we didn’t climb to the top - we actually only climbed about 200m of it, and even that was only to base of the glacier that sits on top of the mountain. But let me tell you, it was the most difficult 200m of our entire lives. Lack of acclimatization definitely played a part in that! Apart from the grueling walk, the reserve around the peak was a dramatic landscape of volcanic debris, glacier-melt streams and green fields dotted with the occasional wild horse.

Good thing we had a spare!

We know it doesn´t look that far - but it nearly killed us

I don´t envy the guy with the huge backpack

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