The call had come, as such calls always do, with incredibly poor timing. The voice on the other end of the line had ranted incoherently about skiing some volcano that still belched occasionally, ...

Rising gracefully above the Andean plains of Ecuador, Cotopaxi Volcano is one of the world's highest active volcanoes and an icon of South America’s natural beauty. Its perfectly symmetrical ...

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