|  | | Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equatorby Edward Whymper
Famous for being the first man to ascend the Matterhorn, this is Edward Whymper's later successful expedition to the Great Andes of the Equator.
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Assisted by his old adversary, Jean Antoine Carrel, Whymper managed to ascend several mountains including Chimbarazo and the active volcano Cotopaxi, wondering if or when it was going to blow.
Lavishly illustrated with over 130 of Whymper's own woodcut illustrations, this is a worthy successor to Scrambles Amongst the Alps and The Ascent of the Matterhorn.
Whymper had originally intended to climb in the Himalayas, but in 1879 civil unrest made travel to the northern frontiers of India impossible, so he headed west for the next highest range of mountains in the world - the South American Andes. His main object of the expedition was to find out about mountain sickness, then a great unknown. He hired the famous Alpine guide Jean-Antoine Carrel (Whymper's old adversary from his conquest of the Matterhorn) to accompany him. However little did Carrel know that he was to be a human guinea-pig for Whymper's observations on altitude sickness and acclimatisation...
As well as the scientific purpose of the expedition, Whymper managed several first ascents in the Andes, no mean feat for a region devoid of good transportation links at the time.
The highlight of the book is undoubtably the ascent of the active volcano Cotopaxi. As well as a tricky Alpine ascent on snow and ice, Whymper and Carrel spent a gripping night camped on the edge of the crater rim; watching the flames dance in the dark over the molten lava in the sump of the crater, wondering if or when she was going to blow...
CONTENTS LISTING
1. From London to Guaranda
3. The First Ascent of Chimborazo
4. From Chuquipoquio to Ambata, Latacunga and Machachi
5. On an Ascent of Corazon
6. On Cotopaxi and Illiniza
7. The ascent of Cotopaxi and a Night on the Summit
8. The First Ascent of Sincholagua
9. On Quito and the Quitonians
10. The First Ascent of Antisana
11. Upon an Ascent of Pichincha
12. The First Ascent of Cayambe
13. The First Ascent of Sara-Urcu
14. The Province of Imbabura, and the First Ascent of Cotocachi
15. A Visit to the Pyramids of Quito
16. A Walk on the Quito Road and a Journey to Altar
17. The First Ascent of Carihuairazo
18. On The Second Ascent of Chimborazo
19. Upon Some Results of the Journey
20. Return to Guayaquil - Conclusion.
WHYMPER'S MAPS
A copy of Edward Whymper's Maps from the original edition has been scanned in, and is available as a free digital download.
Click here for the free download of Whymper's maps of the Andes.
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