View over Quito, from the top of Old Town looking south
Crazy rich!!
Dinner on the terrace of The Secret Garden hostel
Climbing to the top of the Basilica
The top of the Basilica (a.k.a. Quito Cathedral) which we climbed up
Mitad del mundo (a.k.a. the equator, according to French calculations from the 1800s)
The equator (and science museum), according to modern-day GPS calculations
Shooting poisoned darts at the science museum at the mitad del mundo
Anne and me
View of a lake at several thousand metres
Packing gear to prepare for the climb
Cotopaxi
Lunch at 4,800m
Ice training on a glacier
The refuge on Cotopaxi at 4,800m, before disaster struck
Glacier on Cotopaxi
