De la cumbre del Cotopaxi

On Tuesday morning I climbed to the summit of Cotopaxi again. Here's a panorama shot I took at the summit...it was a perfectly clear day, this was the view that was covered by all those clouds two years ago. The climb was different, too, cause the glacier changes so much, so that was pretty sweet getting to try a new route, but that same sulfur smell was there the whole time...

On the summit of Cotopaxi (5897 m) from left to right (had to split it into three for it to upload, click on the image for a closer look):


Volcán Antisana (5758 m, big and snowy)
Volcán Quilindaña (4788 m, faint in sunrise, I think this is it...)
Guides Marco (blue jacket) and Nicolas (headlamp) with other climbers behind them
Cotopaxi crater (rocky part with active volcanic fumes rising out)
Other climbers in orange jackets
to the right of the guy's head in the background, either Volcán Tungurahua (5023 m), Volcán Altar (5319 m), or Volcán Sangay (5230 m)


More Cotopaxi crater
Volcán Chimborazo (6267 m, follow a line connecting the point where the brown rock ends at the white snowy hill to the small hill to the upper right, then further to the upper right Chimborazo is really faint all the way in background, touching the clouds)
Volcán Carihuairazo (5020 m, small bump at the left edge or Chimborazo)
Friends Eric (green jacket, foreground) and Matt (yellow jacket, background) who I climbed with
Other climber (red jacket) just getting to the summit
Volcanes Iliniza (two peaks right next to each other sur is the snowy one at 5263 m, norte is the pointy one at 5126 m that I climbed on Saturday as an acclimatization run)
Volcán Corazón (4788 m, the smooth hump down the ridge from Iliniza, we wanted to climb this last Thursday but our guide's car couldn't handle the muddy roads)


Volcán Rumiñahui (4712 m, in the foreground)
Volcán Pasochoa (4200 m, on the same plane as Corazón)
Volcanes Pichincha (behind Pasochoa, these are the mountains that are right next to Quito, with Guagua on the left at 4794 m and Rucu on the right at 4627m...I can see Rucu from my bedroom window)
Volcán Cotacachi (4939 m, small little dark peak poking out of the clouds, about 70 miles away from Cotopaxi)
Volcán Imbabura (4609 m, another small little peak poking out of the clouds to the right of Cotacachi)
Volcán Sincholagua (4893 m, snowy mountain in foreground)
Volcán Cayambe (5790 m, big snowy mountain touching the clouds, to the upper right of Sincholagua)

Then wraps around to Antisana again. Plus there's a bunch of other "littler" mountains scattered throughout.

I think I'm gonna go for Chimborazo on Monday morning...I'll let you know how that goes!