Review: Volcano
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 18, 2012
Before picking up this short essay (a Kindle single), I'd never read anything by Sloane Crosley.  Now that I've finished it, I'll look forward to reading other works by her.This is the story of her trip to Ecuador on assignment for a travel magazine. While in Quito, she decides--on the spur of the moment--to climb Cotopaxi, a tall volcanic peak. Of course, she's not a climber, so acclimatizing to the altitude never enters her mind. She then picks her mountain guide in a haphazard manner.She covers this little adventure of hers in a funny manner, even her brush with altitude sickness--and possible death. I enjoyed the humor she injected into this story as she describes the adventure.I did run across a couple of grammatical errors, but nothing that distracted from the story.