I tried it at high altitude on Cotopaxi, in Ecuador. It worked with some Octane 84 gasoline. It took forever to boil my pot of water, but it eventually did it!

Below is my friend and I having dinner in the middle of the Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia, the largest salt flat in the world. We parked right in the middle of the lake. We woke up in the middle of the night hearing thunder…which isn’t the nicest way to wake up to, since we were the highest point for miles around! The thunder wasn’t coming our way, which was a gift from the gods (they were probably having pity of us). We woke up the next morning to the sound of some very loud asian travellers that were crawling out of a Land Cruiser (owned by a tour company). I fixed coffee using the MSR XGK and ten minutes later we were driving away and back to some deeper part of the flats. We eventually had a pretty crazy (and scary) river crossing to do with the Jeep.



In the crowd surrounding the river crossing (the Jeep was a sensation), we saw parked a minivan with a plate from…British Columbia! What the hell were they doing here? We crossed successfully and went to see the young Canadian couples. Canadian just on the plate, for they brought the van in Chile from some Canadians. They were both from Switzerland. Anyway. Back to the stove.