A photographic expedition into Colombia's past
On their mission to explore South America, German 
volcanologists Alphons Stübel and Wilhelm Reiss arrived in 
Colombia in 1868 with the idea of reaching the Ecuadorian 
Chimborazo. In addition to their field diaries, a collection of at 
least 200 extraordinary photographs that they acquired here 
in the country attest to their journey through this stretch, 
which took more than two years. Historians Sven Schuster and 
Jessica Alejandra Nueva Oviedo compiled these images that 
for most Colombians are unknown, but that should be part of 
the national photographic history.