Articles by carolina altamirano
Biologist. Love outdoors! especially in cold places such as mountains and glaciers. I visit the Amazon jungle quite often as well.
The Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre cords in Patagonia are amazing places for climbers. In the summer, climbers from all over the world spend a few weeks or months trying to climb one of the routes on those granite peaks. When I was there, I had the chance to meet people from Australia, Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, USA, Belgium and Perú. And I only stayed there about 10 days!, My plan was to climb Guillaumet peak
Curso de Rafting Para Rescates en Aguas Rapidas: Se realizará en el el área de El Chaco, Ecuador. Un curso para quienes tienen experiencia en aguas rápidas y quieren estar listos ante cualquier emergencia
Join Barefoot Expeditions on this special discounted adventure tour. Overnight rafting and camping trip to the Toachi & Blanco rivers. We will depart from Quito on Saturday April 11th at 8:00 am.
Two days rafting trip in Toachi & Blanco rivers, Ecuador
Everybody has a goal or just wants to do something without an apparet reason. The last few days of our trip in the Patagonia, we met a Chilean friend, Mauro, who -as he told us- …
Galapagos islands are located in the Pacific Ocean, and are in the middle of the world -in the Equator-. It is the place where you will find the most astonishing flora and fauna in the world.
El Chalten is a little town born in the early 1980s, located in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares in Argentina. It is an isolated town where everything (food, services) is a little more expensive than in bigger cities in Patagonia such as El Calafate or Río Gallegos. But fortunately you can find almost everything there.
On december 27th I left Quito, I flew to Santiago de Chile, then took a 6 hour bus ride to Mendoza (Argentina), a beautiful city (considered the cleanest in the country).
The team composed by Nico Favresse (Belgium), Sean Villanueva (Belgium) and Ben Ditto (USA), reached the summit of the Paine Central Tower on Torres del Paine, Chile. This happened at the beginning of this month (February 2009) while I was there doing some mild hiking in comparisson.
Patagonia, a unique place, located in the southern hemisphere. It has isolated pamas, huge continental glaciers, wonderful granite walls, beautiful landscapes, a lot of options for outdoors activities (hiking, trekking, climbing, biking, fishing, rafting…). A must-go place for adventurers
