My Andes mountains adventure started with a graveyard.
All the monuments near the first refuge weren’t for climbers without skill. This graveyard is testament to the unpredictability of high places. Chimborazo is very high. It randomly drops large rocks or pieces of glacier on you, and has weather that changes by the minute. Hiking to the second refuge, we could hear the rocks and pieces of ice falling somewhere above.
“El Refugio Edward Whymper” is a simple, unheated, hut at 16,000 feet. It’s named after the English climber who first made it to the summit of the mountain. It isn’t completely unheated. When somebody feels like carrying wood up to 5000 meters, the fireplace might raise the temperature 3 degrees.
We drank “mate de coca” a tea made of coca leaves, which are also used to make another product – one that is taken up the nose. That seemed to help. We went hiking for a short while, which was the sum total of my acclimatization. Paco cooked something, and after eating I slept for at least an hour before starting the ascent at eleven that night.
Mount Chimborazo
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