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A Mountain of Disappointment
There is a bottomless list of reasons to turn around on any climbing expedition, let alone a mountain as big as Volcan Cayambe. Set high in the Andes mountains just outside of Quito, Ecuador, Cayambe is a common mountaineering objective for our College Semester Program and other courses with a mountaineering focus. During my semester as a student in the Spring of 2016, attempting to summit Cayambe felt like a culmination of our hard work throughout the semester. There was a good chance that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity for us students, and we were willing to give our full effort to this mountain. But we never got the chance.