Ecuador tree

We got out just in time. We'd driven to a remote spot in the Ecuadorian Andes for the

'Dangerous Sports Club' to do some more hang-gliding the following day, and were in the

process of pitching camp. Whilst everyone was staring at the 100ft-deep ravines that the

field we were in (our campsite) sloped away into, I spotted this lone tree and the sudden

storm approaching from behind us. Despite being the 'Dangerous Sports Club', nobody

fancied being washed into a downhill torrent and plunged into a ravine, and it became a

"Panic first and then get out of here" scenario. Never seen rain like it. We got off the high

plateau with some difficulty (not all vehicles were four-wheel drive), only to discover the

nearest hotel - hovel more like - uninhabitable except by the cockroaches that inhabited it.

Finally, no option but the long haul up the Pan-American Highway back to the capital,

Quito.

This is one of the few pictures that survived my last encounter with the Dangerous Sports

Club, but that's another story.

We got out just in time. We'd driven to a remote spot in the Ecuadorian Andes for the

'Dangerous Sports Club' to do some more hang-gliding the following day, and were in the

process of pitching camp. Whilst everyone was staring at the 100ft-deep ravines that the field

we were in (our campsite) sloped away into, I spotted this lone tree and the sudden storm

approaching from behind us. Despite being the 'Dangerous Sports Club', nobody fancied being

washed into a downhill torrent and plunged into a ravine, and it became a "Panic first and then

get out of here" scenario. Never seen rain like it. We got off the high plateau with some

difficulty (not all vehicles were four-wheel drive), only to discover the nearest hotel - hovel more

like - uninhabitable except by the cockroaches that inhabited it. Finally, no option but the long

haul up the Pan-American Highway back to the capital, Quito.

This is one of the few pictures that survived my last encounter with the Dangerous Sports Club,

but that's another story.

Night for Day