The Chimborazo is the highest mountain of Ecuador. It is considered easy to climb. Even beginners dare the ascent through ice and falling rocks. According to our guide, only two in ten make it to the top though. I did not.
The Chimborazo is the highest mountain of Ecuador. It is considered easy to climb. Even beginners dare the ascent through ice and falling rocks. According to our guide, only two in ten make it to the top though. I did not.
High in the hills of central Colombia, a cluster of eight villages has managed to do what the rest of Colombia only aspires to: sign a peace deal with the country’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC.
I spent Christmas and New Years eve with friends at the Golfo de Tribugá, close to Nuquí. This is where Colombia comes closest to its African roots. My (photographic) reportage in RONDO, the travel magazine published by Der Standard. Read […]
Colombia’s bloodletting has left the country with a macabre puzzle. The government says 61,825 people have been reported missing and there are records of more than 11,000 unidentified corpses. People of Puerto Berrio adopt the tombs of the unknown dead.