Cocuy Sniffing in Colombia: Walking one of South America's classic treks (Footsteps on the Mountain travel diaries)
Mark Horrell (Author)
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Colombia
When Mark Horrell is solicited to buy cocaine within minutes of arriving in Colombia, it's easy for him to assume the country's reputation as a lawless den of drug barons and kidnappers is well deserved. But since President Álvaro Uribe came to power in 2002 and embarked on a policy of zero tolerance, Colombia has become safe and opened its doors to tourism.
He has come here to trek and climb in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, an area previously a stronghold of guerrillas who would have regarded a climber, especially a foreign one, as easy money and been unable to let them pass by without kidnapping them.
What he finds is a green and pleasant land of mountains, lakes and glaciers inhabited by strange plants and sociable people, and threatened not by drug lords and terrorists, but an unseen danger from the world outside.
Cocuy Sniffing in Colombia is the diary of his adventure and contains a number of photographs from the Cocuy Circuit trek and climb of Ritacuba Blanco.
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