Volcán Acotango is a 6000m peak straddling the border between Bolivia and Chile. It is an ancient, and probably extinct, volcano. I climbed Volcán Acotango in July 2022. It was one of the objectives of my recent trip to Bolivia. We had based ourselves in the village of Sajama. This Continue Reading
Mount Sidley – December 2021 (updated)
[Updated 1st January 2022 to include details of the guides, details of summits and updated list of Mount Sidley summits] This blog looks at ALE's expedition to Mount Sidley in December 2021. ALE had to cancel its January 2021 trip because of Covid. So ALE proposes to run two trips this season Continue Reading
The Top 50 Highest and the Top 50 Most Prominent Volcanoes in the World
This is a short blog to signpost some pages on this site that contain lists of: the Top 50 Highest Volcanoes in the World and the Top 50 Most Prominent Volcanoes in the World. A month or two back I was asked by a friend to consider what the Top 50 Highest and the Top 50 Most Prominent Continue Reading
Volcanic Seven Summits: Defining the Continents
I was inspired to write this blog by an essay written by the late Adam Helman (here). A comment made in my blog on Australia's highest volcano (here) also gave me a push. Adam Helman's essay discussed the fact that it is quite possible to define the Seven Summits differently from the traditional Continue Reading
The British Volcanic Seven Summits
Having concentrated my last few volcano blogs on the Volcanic Seven Summits and Mount Sidley in particular, I thought I would change tack a little. The other day I was pondering what the equivalent might be for the island of Britain. What would the British Volcanic Seven Summits be? Of course, Continue Reading