Source: Photographs by WTL© (2009) on site in the Paso de Cortés, Puebla, México.
Comments: The professor-photographer stopped alongside the extremely rugged, rocky path of a road up the eastern slope of the mountain range to snap this view of Popocatépetl. At the top you see some steam coming from the crater. When Cortés, leading his several hundred Spanish conquistadors, several thousand indigenous warrior allies, dozens of African slave porters, and dozens of women camp followers, came this way in 1519 he and they would have seen a similar view. Cortés, Bernal Díaz and other chroniclers of the trip reported that it was extremely cold. The professor-photographer reports that he found it fairly chilly on this day in August.