The resort town of Baños lies at 1,800m in a deep gorge cutting through the Andes from Ecuador’s central highlands in the west to the Amazon jungle in the east. Rising 3,200m above Baños is Tungurahua, a 5,023m volcano that emerged from its slumber in 1995 and was one of the most active volcanoes in South America for the next twenty years. In the local Quechua language, its name, appropriately, means ‘Throat of Fire’.

The mountain went back to sleep again in 2016, and was re-opened for climbing in 2017. It was therefore an obvious objective when we returned to Ecuador in 2019, especially since it just squeaks into the list of 10 peaks in Ecuador over 5,000m. This video shows are two-day ascent, including a night at the hut at 3,800m on its northern slopes.

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