Climbing Rumiñahui Central (15,240 ft)
Pincha aquí para la versión en castellano On Wednesday, April 30th, we woke up in the Hacienda Los Mortiños after a full night's sleep. My first task of the day was to pick up the shoes beneath the fireplace in the hallway. There, I ran into Pablo, who was looking for his own shoes in the dining room's fireplace. The fireplaces in the hacienda are not embedded in the wall like the one I have in my house. Instead, they are metal cylinders with a glass door that completely encloses the burning firewood inside the container, and they are lifted about 30 cm off the floor. At the top, they have a tube that carries the smoke out of the house; I suppose it exits through some opening in the roof. On its way up, the tube warms the air around it. The space underneath the fireplace is where we placed our shoes to dry. There is no need to explain the smelly consequence of this action... At 7 am, as usual on this trip, we went to have breakfast in the dining room of the Hacienda. This room ...