An ascent of Pico Duarte, the highest mountain in the Dominican Republic

October 8, 2025 Trip reports caribbean, dominican republic, everest, guias de alturas, peak bagging, pico duarte, trekking 0 Comment

This is the second of two posts about our recent visit to the mountainous island of Hispaniola. In the first post, I introduced you to the Dominican Republic, and how we came to trek there. In this post, I describe our assault on Pico Duarte (3,101m), La Pelona (3,095m) and La Rusilla (3,040m), the three highest mountains in the Caribbean.

A mission to climb the highest mountains in the Caribbean

September 24, 2025 Trip reports caribbean, dominican republic, guias de alturas, haiti, hispaniola, peak bagging, pico duarte, small steps adventure tours, trekking 0 Comment

A few years ago, I wrote a blog post to explain that from that moment on I would aim to climb more obscure mountains that hardly anyone writes about. But how to decide which unusual peaks to climb? Well, that was the easy the bit. I would ‘go with the flow’.