By Mark Horrell
The Footsteps on the Mountain Travel Diaries are Mark Horrell’s expedition journals. Quick reads, they are lightly edited versions of what he scribbles in his tent each evening after a day in the mountains.
Mark’s first full-length book, Seven Steps from Snowdon to Everest, about his journey to becoming an Everest climber, was published in November 2015.
Footsteps on the Mountain Travel Diaries
In the Footsteps of Whymper: Climbing Ecuador's Volcanoes
by Mark Horrell
Series: Footsteps on the Mountain Travel Diaries, Book 10.
Price:
$1.00 USD.
Words: 17,670.
Language:
British English.
Published: December 9, 2012
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Mountaineering, Nonfiction » Travel » Essays & Travelogues
This is the story of Mark Horrell's journey in the highlands of Ecuador following in the footsteps of the Victorian mountaineer Edward Whymper, who is best-known for making the very first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. In 1879 he made first ascents of many of Ecuador's highest mountains, and Mark was determined to find out more by climbing some of them himself.