Mountaineering: The Ecuador vol- canoes look a lot like the volcanoes of Oregon and Washington, but the line of permanent snow is much higher (usually 15,000 feet to 16,000 feet) than in the Cascades.

BBC Mundo's Matias Zibell goes in search of the equator in Ecuador, but the task proves much more difficult than he expected.

Not far from Ecuador’s capital, tourists flock to a line etched in the ground and straddle it so they’ve got one foot on either side of the equator. A 100 foot obelisk marks the spot. N… ...

Like a golden thread circling the Earth, the equator sprinkles a bit of tourist magic in 11 countries. View on euronews ...

Despite the monument in Ecuador’s Middle of the World City, that is not the actual site of the equator, which modern GPS has pinpointed about 790 feet down the road. (And that spot is in dispute ...

The real point where the equator passes through Ecuador was later found to be about 240 meters north of the line at Mitad del Mundo, but don't let that deter you from visiting this complex ...