The five days of Colombia’s Cocuy Circuit trek on video

December 21, 2019 Trip reports andes, cocuy circuit, colombia, mountain films, ritacuba blanco, sierra nevada del cocuy, trekking 0 Comment

Eight years ago I hiked the Cocuy Circuit trek in Colombia. To whet your appetite for this beautiful country, here are five videos covering all five days of the trek I completed in 2011. The smiles in these videos tell it all.

A return to the mountains of Colombia, with a volcanic twist

December 18, 2019 Expedition dispatches andes, cocuy circuit, colombia, nevado del ruiz, nevado del tolima, ritacuba blanco, trekking, volcanoes 0 Comment

Eight years ago I travelled to Colombia and completed the Cocuy Circuit, one of the most beautiful treks I’ve ever had the pleasure of walking. I will be returning to Colombia over Christmas, this time to trek and climb the volcanoes of Los Nevados.

Climbing Cotopaxi: the ‘most beautiful of all the colossal peaks of the Andes’

December 11, 2019 Trip reports alexander von humboldt, andes, antisana, cotopaxi, ecuador, edita, tungurahua, volcanoes, wilhelm reiss 2 Comments

There are few more quintessentially conical volcanoes than Cotopaxi, and it’s hard to look at without wanting to climb it. Edita hadn’t, and as soon as the mountain re-opened after the eruption in 2015, she had to do so at the first opportunity.

Review: Touching the Void, on stage in London’s West End

December 4, 2019 Reviews and tributes andes, cordillera huayhuash, first ascents, joe simpson, mountain films, mountain literature, mountain theatre, peru, simon yates, siula grande 0 Comment

There aren’t many characters in Joe Simpson’s book Touching the Void, and the main one spends most of the story entirely alone, contemplating existence as he crawls for three days along a glacier. How on earth were they going to make a stage version of this?