Hiking up El Altar volcano in Riobamba region was one of the most challenging and at the same time most beautiful hikes I have done in my life. I had to make it through knee-deep mud, pass some angry cows and spend a cold night at 4.000m, but the views I got on the way were simply amazing; I took this photo just some hundred meters before I reaching the crater lake at 4.200m. I could not go any further since the hiking track ends at the crater lake; reaching the top would have required proper ice climbing gear.
18mm, f8, 1/320; Click on image to enlarge
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Oh man... this is beyond words! The rough beauty of nature at its best.
The Andes are really beautiful, you should try to make it there one day!
So nice I Love it !!!
Give me the energy to move !
Haha, as Nike would say: "just do it!" ;)
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