This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... or Tower Island, in Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands. Photograph by TUI DE ROY, MINDEN PICTURES During a courtship ...

Climbing, she says, allows for an “exploration of your body, of your limits, of the possibilities that you have.” She’s working to ensure people with disabilities have the chance to experience it.

A photographic journey to Quilotoa, Ecuador’s volcanic crater lake A photographic journey to Quilotoa, Ecuador’s volcanic crater lake A cultural exploration of Ecuador’s Angochagua ...

Lindblad Expeditions, a National Geographic Society partner, has such a long history with the islands that in 2006 Ecuador’s national park service named a newly discovered Galápagos moth ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a province of Ecuador that straddles the Equator. Rebuffed, the sea retreats in a white flag of foam.

Thanks to one of the largest and best-preserved colonial cores in Latin America, Ecuador's capital was named the very first UNESCO World Heritage site. The city's dramatic setting squeezed between ...

The gold trail went cold until the 1850s, when English botanist Richard Spruce traveled to Ecuador in search ... an explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society, has an explanation ...

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... which lives in Colombia and Ecuador. Probably none is more in tune with the bird than Kim Bostwick.