At the turn of the 19th century, the intrepid Prussian naturalist and explorer Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt set out on a pioneering journey across the Americas. Aside from compiling a shelf full of scientific tomes on his adventures, Humboldt also coined the phrase ‘the Avenue of the Volcanoes’ en route, in reference to Ecuador’s particularly eruptive geology. Running for hundreds of miles along two Andean cordilleras, it’s a geological thoroughfare containing no less than seven volcanic peaks that tower over 5,000 metres high, out of which protrude the majority of mainland Ecuador’s 30-odd volcanoes.
Not Dartmoor.