It was Wymper`s second ascension to the colossus of Ecuadorian Andes on July 1880, when 100 Km. to the north, Chimborazo Volcano erupted and covered with a black ash mantel the mountain where Wymper was. The pictures and drawings of Wymper show him and his partners posing next to the place where Edgar Wymper established the second and third camp for the first 2 ascensions to the volcano, in this occasion all covered with ash.
Images like these, motivated me to look for the remains that the mythical English mountaineer settled down to carry out so daring journey.

My passion for Chimborazo Volcano began when I was a boy, when a school trip took us to the giant's slopes of about of 6300 meters high. Step by step I was feeding my passion for the Chimborazo. Trough the years, I have been able to store a wide collection of articles published by the own Wymper about their experiences in the Ecuadorian Andes and especially about Chimborazo, our favorite volcano.

Wymper was a visionary. Its education in fine arts of the engraving took him in a journey through the Alps drawing its spectacular landscapes, motivating him to become one of the biggest mountaineers. After years of successful ascensions, he arrived to South America to conquer the Andes of Ecuador
His mythical expeditions to Chimborazo, in company of mules and Indians of the area, loading his expensive and heavy instruments of pressure, climate and temperature mediation motivated him to make several expeditions that later would lead him to conquer highest peak in Ecuador.

It was habit of Wymper to name the geographical accidents in each one of their expeditions; all these details are clearly pointed in their notes.
These names and images made easier my research work looking for the remains of the camps left by the European climber

From 1980, I became devoted to find the rest of the camps between the valleys and rocks of the volcano. I carried out several expeditions following the route that gingerly had almost been planned one century before. I had the great opportunity to guide to a German Ecuadorian group toward the summit of Chimborazo the night of July of 1980, commemorating this way, one century of the feat of Wymper.
After several years of research, arrived to my hands a picture taken by the same Wymper, in which I saw him next to their companions in one of the built base camps I had been looking for years, and that rocky step came to my memory for which I had trafficked so many times, but because of the perspective of the image that had in my hands it had been very difficult to recognize it previously.

I Planned an expedition immediately, and finally I arrive to the place where, under the rocks and the snow, I found the wooden posts of polilepys of which i had read Wymper accustomed to identify its camps with wooden stakes and with its respective engraving.

Bottles of wine, brandy, cans of preserves, metallic pieces and even a bottle for samples with its cork were my discovery in that place.
This way I closed a cycle with Chimborazo Volcano, its great valley and their gigantic slopes are now my home and my work place. From this point the mountain watches over me and I watch her hoping to obtain rakes that take me to discover a little bit more about the highest point of the Ecuadorian Andes.