Historically, the high mountains around the world have been considered sacred places, magical environments, as dwellings of the gods.This book represents an ascent to the imposing snowy peaks, mountain ranges, and glaciers of Colombia, climbed over three years of persistent expeditions by photographer and naturalist Cristóbal von Rothkirch, whose lens calmly immerses itself in the beauty and vitality of the Andes, in search of that high Colombia of open spaces and deep skies. Starting from the last human settlements on their slopes, the ascent takes us into the overwhelming beauty of the cloud forests and the solitary visions of the páramos and superpáramos, until reaching the highest points of the country via the snowy path: the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, the Nevados del Ruiz, Santa Isabel, Tolima and Huila, and the southern volcanoes.This volume is extraordinarily complemented by the texts of experts Juan Pablo Ruiz and Carlos Mauricio Vega.