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Climbing the Mexican Volcano Popocatepetl Popo is a beautiful cone shaped volcano that is sometimes visible from the main plaza in Mexico City. It can't be climbed right now because it is erupting! You can see how Popo is doing today on the live webcam at
http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/mvolcan.html (click on Tamaņo A).
The summit is 5452m (17,887ft), so for us flatlanders it is a pretty slow trek on crampons up to the summit. In the far background of this picture you can see Orizaba (Citlateptl) 5700m (18,700ft). In a week I was able to climb Popo, Orizaba and Iztaccihuatl 5286m (17,342ft).
Here is a web site about climbing the Mexican volcanos: http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/volcan~1.html |
|  | Climbing in the Alps near Chamonix I don't do much technical climbing any more since I discovered that I am not immortal. |
| Climbing out of a crevasse |
| | Crevasse Escape My German climbing partner, Ulrich Lantz, was playing around in a crevasse when I snapped this picture. Looks desperate! |
1865 London Times: Why is the best blood of England to waste itself
scaling hitherto inaccessible peaks, in straining
the eternal snows and reaching the unfathomable
abyss never to return? Is it life? Is it duty? Is it
common sense? Is it allowable? Is it not wrong? |
My Recent Travels: May-June 2000: Peru - Lima, Cusco, Manchu Picchu trek, Sacred Valley, Lake Titticaca, Island of Taquile, bus over Andes from Cusco to Ayacucho.
July 2000: Vancouver, BC for seminar and hiking in BC costal mountains.
February 2001: Florida for Space Shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral and scuba diving in Key Largo.
September 2001: California to climb Mt Whitney, the highest mountain the lower 48 states.
June 2002: Yukon Territory: canoed from Dawson to Whitehorse and then went gold prospecting in the Klondike
http://www.infiltec.com/gold/yukon/
July 2002:California for seminar at UCLA and climb Mt Baldy
September-October 2002: worked in Okinawa for a month - lots of scuba diving
http://www.infiltec.com/oki-0902/
April 2003: UK: worked near Oxford
and traveled to work sites around the UK.
Winter 2003 - Jackson Hole, WY skiing
Nov/Dec 2003 - Tanzania, climbed Kilimanjaro, went on safar, and dived in Zanzibar.
October 2004 - treking in Ladakh, trek in Uttaranchal to the source of the Ganges, touring N India to Delhi, Agra, Udiapur, Veranisi, Mussoorie, etc
August 2005: Panama for birdwatcing, and visit friends near Volcan and Panama City.
February 2006 - skiing in Zermatt
August/September 2006: Ecuador to climb Cotopaxi Volcano, birdwatching, and visit Galapagos.
April 2007 - Wray, CO to see the mating dance of the prairie chicken
August 2008 - Hawaii to see live lava and the telescopes on Mona Kea.
January 2009 - Searched for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker in the swamps of Arkansas |
Trips I am Planning: May 2009 - Greece |
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leics Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:50 UTC
Happy birthday! Hope you have an excallent day. :-) J | Donna_in_India Sun Nov 15, 2009 02:23 UTC
Hi Dave - wishing you a very happy birthday! Love your photos - great adventures! | zanzooni Sun Nov 8, 2009 04:33 UTC
OK, oh silent one. We are doing a big VT meet down in Fredericksburg, VA in Oct. 2010. Hope you can attend. Check out the meetings site on VT. ~ | a2lopes Sat Nov 15, 2008 23:08 UTC
Happy birthday Dave, and many happy returns of the day. Greetings from Lisboa which is waiting for another visit next year this time for the Euromeeting |
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