Early in the morning on Sunday, October 23, a dozen Ecuadoran climbers were hit by a D3/R4 avalanche—a rating that classifies the slide as very large and destructive—while ascending the Standard Route ...
Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is scientifically closer to space than Mount Everest, not due to sea-level height, but Earth's equatorial bulge. This bulge makes points near the equator farther from the ...
It's 10 pm, I'm at 4,850 meters at base camp, facing a Chimborazo climb, and I can't sleep. High altitudes tend to do that. I lay there, feeling the panic that little oxygen brings, and am writing a ...