High up in the Andes mountains, Cotopaxi National Park lies just 50 km (31 miles) south from Ecuador’s capital city Quito. If you’re lucky and it’s a clear day out, there’s a chance you ...

Ecuador is a country of beautiful extremes, from the lush Amazon rainforest to the rugged Andes mountains. Cotopaxi, one of the highest active volcanoes in the world, looms tall—far from the ...

Cotopaxi in Ecuador continues to rumble after its first eruption in 70 years earlier this month.Over the last week, the volcano has been emitting almost constant steam-and-ash plumes punctuated by ...

Hail strikes the roof of our Suzuki SUV, sounding like pebbles from above. We’re in the middle of a storm in Cotopaxi National Park, about 3000m up in the Ecuadorean Andes. Great thunderclaps ...

COTOPAXI NATIONAL PARK, Ecuador What's a little oxygen deprivation when you can stand on a towering volcano and take in a glacier at the same time? At Cotopaxi National Park, an hour-and-a-half dri… ...