The book I read to research this post was Cocuy Sniffing In Colombia by Mark Horrell which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. The title to this book is a bit of a joke because as most people know most of the world's cocaine comes from Colombia and many addicts come to this country for that reason. The author being white was accosted by people selling coke but he is a mountaineer who writes about his experiences and that is why he chose to visit. This book is quite short but is quite informative and tells you quite a bit about the recent history of this country. Bogarta is the capital of Colombia and has 7 million people and is situated on a plateau 2,600 metres high. Colombia is starting to find its feet as a tourist destination and until fairly recently it was very risky to venture outside this city due to kidnappings of both tourists and locals by guerrillas and drug lords who controlled much of the surrounding area. They used to also force families in those areas to give their sons to them as members and if they refused they killed the entire family. Fairly recently the government sent 20,000 troops in to drive the guerrillas back into the lowlands so much of the country is now relatively safe. There is a novel which was made into a film called Clear And Present Danger by Tom Clancy which is based on this war in Colombia and also stars Harrison Ford and is very good. Anyway getting back to Colombia the author climbed the 2nd highest peak in this country and toured much of the mountains and glaciers surrounding Bogarta. The glaciers are disappearing at an alarming rate and it won't be long before they vanish completely. He does also say he'd love to climb Colombia's highest peak but tourists are banned from that area which is owned and populated by indigenous people or a tribal group. The author is writing a feature length book about his ascent of Mt Everest which he did recently but has written quite a lot of short ebooks about his visits to various mountainous areas around the world. They are normally priced quite cheaply.