The Ecuadorian Andes range offers the great opportunity to climb different volcanoes in few days, Ecuador with a small surface of 272.000 Km2 has 62 volcanoes, and at least the 20% of them are active.
 
Ecuador is one of the few places where once you landed in Quito, you will be at 9400 Ft so your body will have a quick adaptation to the altitude.
World famous elevations can be climbed in a week !!! like Cotopaxi Volcano, one of the highest active Volcano in the World, or the highest Mountain in Ecuador Chimborazo 20823 ft
We suggest to take an acclimatation period  of three days.

ECUADOR LIFETIME can arrange all kinds of climbing activities in Ecuador. Our guides, have professional climbing guiding license issued by ASEGUIM, so for sure you will be in the right hands .
We can provide you all equipment needed or if you want, feel free to bring your own one.

Perhaps the most sold climbing tour, Cotopaxi Volcano located 60 miles south of Quito is waiting for you. It is not a technical volcano all you need is a good adaptation to the altitude and also a good physical condition.

During the first day you will depart from Quito once all our equipment has been checked, Drive trough the avenue of the volcanoes all the way to Cotopaxi National Park. Once there, we need to go  the parking area, located at 14850 ft. (4500 m.) and then we walk about 45 min. to reach the Refuge Jose Rivas located at 15840 ft. (5800 m.). In the afternoon our guides and you will walk a bit more in order to get the glaciers located at 16500 ft. (5000 m.) where we can test all our equipment once more.

We will provide all meals and drinks for all days and overnight at the Refuge.
 In the early morning of the second day 24:00 (midnight) will begin our expedition to the summit of the Cotopaxi volcano, 19460 ft (5.897 m) average time to walk is 6 hours, and 2 hours 30 minutes in the way down. Drive back to Quito.
 

Will depart from Quito at 9:00 am, Cotopaxi National Park is our destination, Once there, we will stop at Limpiopungo Lagoon located at 12540 ft. (3.800 m.) where we are going to satr walking up to the summit of the Ruminahui, that takes about three hours going up and hour and half going down. After this we come back to our vehicle to go to our hostel, to recharge energies and get a realy good adaptation to the altitude.

We will provide all meals and drinks for all days and overnight at the Hostel and Refuge. After breakfast in the second day we depart to the Refuge of the Cotopaxi volcano, right there, walks to the glaciers are going to be done. Eat and rest is so important in order to go to the summit.

In the early morning of the third day 24:00 (midnight) will begin our expedition to the summit of the Cotopaxi volcano, 19460 ft (5.897 m) average time to walk is 6 hours, and 2 hours 30 minutes in the way down. Drive back to Quito.

From Quito we drive south to the small town of Chaupi , our car will  take us at 12870 ft. (3900 m), this is the palce called La Virgen. From this point we will walk 5 hours about to the Summit of Iliniza 16340 ft. (4950 m.), and takes 3 hours in the way down. Come back to La Virgen, and drive to our hostel call Llovizna del Cahupi where we overnight.
 We will provide all meals and drinks for all days and overnight at the Hostel and Refuge.

In the second day, we leave after breakfast to Cotopaxi National Park, and drive to the parking area located at 14850 ft. (4500 m.) and then we walk about 45 min. to reach the Refuge Jose Rivas located at 15840 ft. (5800 m.). In the afternoon our guides and you will walk a bit more in order to get the glaciers located at 16500 ft. (5000 m.) where we can test all our equipment once more.

In the early morning of the second day 24:00 (midnight) will begin our expedition to the summit of the Cotopaxi volcano, 19460 ft (5.897 m) average time to walk is 6 hours, and 2 hours 30 minutes in the way down. Drive back to Quito.

*Ilinizas are two mountains, if you want to climb the South iliniza that is higher we need to spend one extra day in the Llovizna del Chaupi hostel, so we can run this trip with 4 days and three nights.

This is the highest elevation in Ecuador, it’s summit is located at 20823 ft. (6310 m.) we recommend to acclimatize first up to 15500 ft (5000 m).

Chimborazo was the name of a god in the ancient nation of Puruhaes (Ecuadorian indigenous community) The name has various meanings. It is also belived that chimbo originated from the word chimu which means shade protection. In Quichua chimbo or chimbu means the other half or part, and rassa means snow, and hence chimborazo could mean "snow of the other part or half". In indian mythology they considered Chimborazo to be the husband of Tungurahua.


Leaving Quito at around 8:00 am we will reach the first refuge (4800m) in the afternoon. We will have dinner and then hike 30 minutes to the second refuge (5000m) and rest there.


We start our tough ascent very early in the morning. The average ascending time is 7-9 hours and the average decent takes 3-4 hours. We return to Quito via Ambato. The refuges offer very good facilities to tourists and climbers (water, electricity, an open fire, safe storage facilities, lockers and a kitchen with all cooking utensils).

We will provide all meals and drinks for all days and overnight at the Hostel and Refuge.