The Torrres, the Towers trek is one of the most popular…always people passing both ways. Can you see why? Most of the trail is fine, but at the top, it is all loose skree (sic) and a huge challenge. Slow slow slow is good. Can you see the edge of the tree line where the avalanches wipe out the whole side of the landscape.
These are the “domes” we sleep in at the Ecocamp. This is at dawn as the sun hits the Towers (yellow). The rooms are fine inside, but it is a duck and a crawl to enter and exit – after a long hike, my groans were audible!
We drink the water right out of the streams, it is glacial melt – delicious. The stone face on the side of the river is where the glacier scraped the rock not that long ago…hundreds and thousands of years ago, not millions! — at Torres del Paine National Park.
The Grey Glacier from the new Grey Ferry boat. The dirt on the ridges of the ice has blown onto the surface from the nearby hillsides. — at Glaciar Grey, Parque Nacional Torres del paine.
patterns — at Glaciar Grey, Parque Nacional Torres del paine.
Classic pix of the park from the road that brings us all here. — at Torres del Paine National Park.
Grey glacier drops right into the lake. — at Glaciar Grey, Parque Nacional Torres del paine.
The Grey Glacier in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. It is shrinking several meters per year. — at Glaciar Grey, Parque Nacional Torres del paine.
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