Descending from the summit of Cotopaxi Aug 15, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009 1:55 PM EDT Editor s note: This is the final installment in a four-part series by Gaylord resident Jessica Kane of her Dec. 16, 2007 summiting of Cotopaxi, Ecuador s second-tallest peak at 19,347 feet ... Twenty minutes, Chiqui said, hoping the clouds might open up and give us a glimpse of the crater of Cotopaxi before we descended ... We had climbed together for two months, but as soon as they had ceased to be part of my journey to the summit of Cotopaxi, I observed them... (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Climbing Cotopaxi Aug 8, 2009
By Jessica Kane, Special to the Herald Times Friday, August 7, 2009 11:59 AM EDT Editor s note: This is part three in a four-part series by Gaylord s Jessica Kane of the time she summited Cotopaxi, Ecuador s second-tallest peak ... Without much hesitation, the two men crossed and continued on, towards the perfect, distinctive cone that is the cumbre of Cotopaxi, now so close we could see it ... And then, suddenly we were there, the cumbre of Cotopaxi, 5,897 meters, 19,342 feet. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Cotopaxi, 5,897 m Jul 25, 2009
Photo courtesy Jessica Kane Editor s note: This is the first installment in a several-part series, written by Gaylord resident Jessica Kane, about her expedition climbing to the top of Cotopaxi -- Brazil s second-tallest peak at 19,342 feet and an active volcano -- in 2007 ... I shivered slightly and snuggled farther into the warm cocoon of my sleeping bag as I thought of the cold we would soon face during our attempt on the cumbre, the summit of Cotopaxi ... It was strange that Fabian, Julia,... (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Scaling glaciers in Colombia Jul 5, 2009
The ice sheet covering Ecuador's spectacular Cotopaxi Volcano has shrunk by one-third since 1976. In Colombia, the peaks in Los Nevados national park have already lost their year-round ice cap, while the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy's glaciers have receded to one-fifth of the length recorded in 1850. (San Francisco Chronicle)
First Ascent Team #2 Summits Everest! May 27, 2009
Eddie Bauer's mountaineering history: 1953 - K2, Pakistan/China 1953 - Logan & Cook, Yukon 1953 - Inca Highway Expedition, South America 1954 - Makalu, Nepal/Tibet 1955 - Lhotse, Nepal/Tibet *1958 - Gasherbrum I, Pakistan/China 1958 - Antarctica 1958 - Slick-Johnson Snowman Expedition, Nepal 1959 - Eastern Kanjroba Himal, Nepal 1960 - Andes, South America *1960 - Masherbrum, Pakistan/India 1960 - McKinley/Denali, Alaska **1963 - Everest (South Col), Nepal/Tibet *1963 - Everest (West Ridge),... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
