Thrilled with the outing, Farrington began climbing more and later took a trip to the Dolomites. Her mountain guide there, Alberto De Giuli, calls via ferrata “a perfect approach to the vertical ...

But there is one more contender for highest mountain: Mount Chimborazo, an inactive stratovolcano in the Cordillera Occidental range of the Ecuadorian Andes. When measured from sea level ...