It’s not the kind of place that comes to mind when thinking about Colombia, but a little mountain village called Minca gets my vote for best of honors. A slow 17 kilometers up and out of dusty Santa ...

We’d been walking for half an hour up the steep road above Minca, Colombia, all our stuff on our backs, when I started to wonder whether we would have to leave the trail and scramble up a nearly ...

Joni Mitchell’s“Both Sides Now” played in my head as I watched the sunset from the Cerro Kennedy peak in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada range. From one side of the mountaintop, I could see the coastal ...