i spent the night on an active volcano....🇬🇹 GUATEMALA

Auto-captioned from the film, lightly cleaned. Elena's words, not edited prose.

oh my God I cannot believe that hi how we doing I can't believe I'm here right now I took the long red eye from LAX to beautiful Central America there's a lot of bird noises outside and I'm in Guatemala specifically antia there is this iconic overnight apparently super difficult hike up aago which you're probably pancing where you basically hike up a whole damn volcano and spend the night at the top and that's literally why I'm here it looks like this amazing challenging incredible experience so I figured i' needed to try out for myself so I literally chose Guatemala for this volcano and I can already tell Guatemala is going to blow me out of the water but I'm really excited and I'm really nervous cuz everything I've read online has been saying it's the hardest hike they've ever done and I'm like I don't know been prepared for this but we're doing it anyway so Ona from Guatemala I was thinking doing it solo but I texted my friend Jacob the one that I went diing with I was like hey you want to come to Guatemala and hang up and thank God you said yes hiy so he's joining me as well and we'll see how this goes do good morning the time has come my little cap I got my water pin jacket and a puffer because apparently it's super freaking cold out there got my hiking pants it's going to be great I think maybe first part and we're already l we would have to run to catch the bus oh God for example we have pant backpacks draking PS got my little handy hiking poles my little camera bag set up my Speedy glasses we're ready we're about to start yeah we're packed up how we feeling took a while took a while but it's good I'm want to stand it them okay we were prey today I think that anticipation has hit and now we're just excited to get going it's kind of been a long morning ready to go wish love luck the Fier part is the hardest part because it's deep and deeper I swear it's a lot steeper than it looks just where it was needed so we made it to be like Reg ation checkpoint which apparently is the hardest part the most steep getting up here so once you're up here you know still while to go it's a little pink actually wasn't that bad like the first part no which is really nice as I expect sucks don't get me wrong I'm not going to Hype it down but I don't oh there's a puppy oh tail like that he so CU definitely not that bad like a very intense workout not impossible whatsoever just download a podcast yes throw the headphones in and go say this cute little dog you're more fit than all of us you're a strong boy to get up here hi the foliage is so beautiful up here I haven't really got in the tropics yet since you here look at this there's our whole little crew probably like 15 of us in the cold kitchen light we both look for a sun so so after about 2 and 1/2 hours of straight uphill trekking we finally made it about halfway and had a little lunch stop to fuel up before heading off again and uphill battle continued on but there's nothing quite like breaking through the clouds like this and realizing Your Own Strength carried you this High I think we're like 2/3 of the way there and we're officially above the clouds it's crazy stunning I'm pretty sure this is the first time there's been flat grounds since starting and I'm and finally after 5 hours and a ton of elevation gain we made it to the Huts where we're going to be spending the night we made it that was definitely incredibly challenging I'm so grateful I did that feel strong it is just so beautiful hi we got some Aussies and some Brits and solo female Travelers badass we love to see it hey just sitting on this little Hill for to De breathe it's challenging and it was so SK the whole way up there was no break no rest for the wicked I think I'm really coming into this like stage of life in the last year or two maybe it's something in your like 20s that happens where I love kind of seeking up these challenges that help me show purely to myself that I am strong incapable I can do hard things it was such a test of like the mind and the body to be able to push through and make it to the top there's this beauty to the painful meditation of these types of hikes where it's just you focus on putting one foot in front of you and you can't do look too far ahead or else you're going to get discouraged you kind of feel like you're hitting your own limits and your own end point and then you surprise yourself and you're like oh I actually am capable pushing myself just a little bit further my body's a little stronger than I thought my mind is a little bit stronger than I thought I think another think exploring too with this kind of like experience like this and this is for my gals out there I love living on the dichotomy of like living different lives I feel like sometimes the outdoorsy world and community and hiking and trips like this are super intimidating if you don't like have a family that grew up showing how to do it or friends that do it if you like being a bougie City girl one week in a mountain girl the next week I feel like sometimes especially as women were told to like pick a certain Camp people will kind of like give you a hard time if you're from one trying to do the other it sounds silly but like frankly that alone can deter someone from entering into a new scene and exploring a new world and I love kind of being able to tap into both of these and like expand my own identity when anyone watching life is short it can be lonely it's scary it confusing do that thing you've been wanting to do book that trip hike up that mountain you can be all the things you want to be at once uh one thing I will say as well for any solo female Travelers out there there are like five or six different solo female Travelers within my group alone which is so badass okay I'm getting summoned for Sunset hike so it's time to go we'll chat more soon and look look at that plume she literally just shut up look at that are you guys seeing what I'm but we SOA hello hi casually from the top of a volcano we made it and we just can't get over how it is beautiful it is and we just hiked a really hard hike to be able to see this I've never in my life watched sunset in the clouds maybe in an airplane but it's said I walked my own little Lakes carried me this far to be able to watch Sunset above the clouds it is so crazy it's yeah I don't think I've done this either no and I feel like maybe will I do this again yes I will but honestly where where will you have an active volcano and be able to watch a sunset Above the Clouds my little same cool ja just point yours up oh my that oh my God my God saw that oh my god wow there's something about it like makes you emotional see like it's like the power of mother nature oh my gosh are you kidding me I cannot believe I'm sting this to my own eyes like I feel like I'm in like a a movie well hello good morning from right and early the next day as you can see there's clearly no sun for a hike to see the volcano which I must admit I was a little bummed on I woke up at 420 to hike up to the top of the mountain but our tour guy said it's not worth it so I'm trying to see the bright side of things I'm trying to be positive and not be too bomed cuz sometimes you know you come all this way and all you get are gray skies and you got to enjoy the journey nonetheless we to take a second to appreciate the fact that I'm on top of volcano in Guatemala like I'm so small we're all so small the world is so big we're all just on a floating Rock nothing really matters there's Bey to be found even in this morning with this foggy gray background and the black slow out of the trees it's kind of peaceful just kind of thinking about how grateful I am to be here how beautiful it is this is crazy making our way down the hill I have decided it's easier to jog a little bit cuz I keep slipping W we're doing it we got your soul go King go oh we're already back easy look at it it's so pretty oh my gosh so holy he all