STANDING fifty miles below the equator, and a hundred west of the meridian of Washington, Cotopaxi is at once the ... piled upon each other, its summit rising 4,000 ft. above the limit of ...

Cotopaxi, one of the highest active volcanoes in the world, looms tall—far from the Pacific coastline and even farther from the Galápagos Islands beyond. This spring I joined a nine-day ...