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| HIGH EXPEDITIONS | Route Climbed: Normal Route.  Date Climbed: Dec 17, 2009 | |
| Climbed with Cynthia (FRA) and Gunter (AUS). We left the refuge at 1:00 am. It snowed a bit the first 3 hours. Snow/ice conditions were perfect. Got to the summit (5,897 m/19,347 ft) at 6:15 am. There's a new huge and deep crevasse a few meters before reaching the summit. We took an alternative route and summited. We could see the crater and other volcanoes to the north, south and west as well as a sea of clouds below us. | |
| Posted Dec 21, 2009 6:06 pm | ||
| HIGH EXPEDITIONS | Route Climbed: Normal Route. Date Climbed: Nov 13, 2009 | |
| Guided Canadians Paul and Brian, (49 years old both). Left the refuge at 1:10 am. We got to the summit at 6:15 am... beautiful sunrise and a perfect view of the mountains. We looked Sangay erupting far in the distance. Got back to te refuge in just 1:15 hours. Great weather and ice/snow conditions. | |
| Posted Nov 14, 2009 2:24 pm | ||
| andreeacorodeanu | Route Climbed: Normal Route. Date Climbed: Oct 12, 2009 | |
| Climbed with Boriss (ECU) and Mehmet (TUR). Long climb, we got to the summit (5,897 m / 19,347 ft) at 7.30 am. Got sick at the summit and returning was a nightmare. Good weather, no wind all the way up to the summit. A bit foggy at the summit but we got to see the crater, Illinizas and Ruminahui from time to time. I got amazed to see the whole route up climbed by us before dawn... very long and crevassed, most of them very deep and large. A beautiful mountain and I'm so happy I reached the summit!. | |
| Posted Oct 26, 2009 1:49 pm | ||
| HIGH EXPEDITIONS | Route Climbed: Normal Route. Date Climbed: Oct 19, 2009 | |
| Guided Jean Claude (FRA) and Cristel (FRA). We had great weather, startlit and windless. Left the refuge at 1:30 am and got to the summit (5,897 m / 19,347 ft) at 6:00 am. Five and a half hours of climbing. Crevasses are getting bigger and snowbridges thinner. We waited one hour at the summit, enjoying of the views and the sunrise. Rafael and Ivan (Ecuadorian guides) joined us later along with their four french clients. The sun melted the snow on our way down, it made our descent harder. There was a huge avalanche by the time we reached the glacier line. My wishes came true. I thick layer of new fresh snow covered the whole volcano and its lowlands. We all got back to the parking lot in the middle of a heavy thunderstorm. | |
| Posted Oct 23, 2009 6:21 pm | ||
| HIGH EXPEDITIONS | Route Climbed: Normal Route. Date Climbed: Oct 12, 2009 | |
| Climbed with Andreea (ROM) and Mehmet (TUR). Left the refuge at 1:00 am. Very enjoyable climb. Ice bridges on the crevasses were very stable and compacted even though the night was warm and windless. Got to the summit at 7:30 am along with my two completely exhausted climbing partners. The fog difted away for a while and we could see the crater and a few peaks of the western cordillera. Got back to the refuge at 10:30 am. - Some information: Actually this is the very first route climbed back in the day by the first climbers. This route was climbable until January 2000 when huge deep crevasses featured on the way up, stopping climbers to reach the summit. A new route was opened soon after, we called it “La Rompe Corazones” (heartbreaker).. I wonder why? :) It usually used to take up to 3 hours of constant activity to reach the 5,500 m by an almost 50 degree slope. We climbed and guided by this route for 9 years. - Good and bad news: The good new is, this route (Yanasacha) was recently opened again (May 2009). A very scenic route with many resting spots and boredless. It has many nice features, huge deep crevasses, ice bridges and the view of Yanasacha (black wall) from below. A very enjoyable climb! The bad new is, new crevasses are showing up lately, cutting our way up and forcing us to search for alternative routes. Hope the mountain will get enough snow accumulation the following years in order to keep climbing by this impressive scenic route. | |
| Posted Oct 23, 2009 6:20 pm | ||
| HIGH EXPEDITIONS | Route Climbed: Normal Route. Date Climbed: Mar 6, 1996 | |
| Snow/ice conditions were perfect, but cloudy during the entire climb. We couldn't even see the crater, but it was one of the best moments in my life, being up there with Andres (my brother) and a bunch of climbers and guides like Gaspar Navarrete and Gabriel Llano (+) who let us follow them up with generosity. Gabriel Llano died years later while guiding a pitch in Cordillera Real Bolivia. It was great to share moments with him and the rest of climbers. This was the beginning of countless trips to Cotopaxi. (My first time on Cotopaxi's top) | |
| Posted Oct 23, 2009 6:12 pm | ||
| camerona91 | Easy route Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2009 | |
| Easy route but the altitude and travellers sickness (unrelated) made it difficult. | |
| Posted Jun 22, 2009 10:39 pm | ||
| mmcguigan | Awesome Climb Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2008 | |
| Had a great time going up this beautiful peak with my brother. | |
| Posted Dec 22, 2008 11:58 pm | ||
| Hotfeet | Cotopaxi in the clouds! Date Climbed: Jan 15, 2008 | |
| Great Mountain! | |
| Posted Feb 15, 2008 7:50 pm | ||
| Outdoorpartner | Alpine Ascents 06 Date Climbed: Dec 11, 2006 | |
| Just two of us on a rope team. Great weather and saw another volcano having a big eruption from the summit! | |
| Posted Dec 16, 2006 12:56 pm | ||
| Whitesail | 1998 | |
| Climbed with a couple of friends from Oreagon who I met in Ecuador. Summit was unfortunatly in mist just like Chimborazo. | |
| Posted Nov 26, 2006 1:29 pm | ||
| big_g | US-DE team Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2004 | |
| Very happy to make the summit but the clouds came in during the final part of the climb so I never got to see anything from the summit. | |
| Posted Sep 24, 2006 2:03 am | ||
| osatrik | OSAT Ecuador Expedition - 2002 | |
| Climbed with the OSAT-Ecuador group. One climber stayed at the Refugio because he wasn't feeling well. When we returned, he was unconcious and had to be carried down to the parking lot and evacuated to a Quito hospital for a 2 night stay -- one lung 1/2 full of fluid due to HAPE. | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2006 6:01 am | ||
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Cordillera Oriental (Ecuador)
