Wednesday, November 19, 2008

El Calafate, Glaciar del Perito Moreno

Soooo... Today I went to el Parque Nacional de los Glaciares again (Oh, no...). I saw the only non-recessing glacier. It is a wall of ice (50 to 60 meters, believe it or not...) falling into a river. Did anybody see the last opus of Ice Age by the way? It is also te glaciar moving the fastest (the speed is 1 to 2 meters said the guide, but it might be carrots, cows or whatever - stupid engineers...). Thanks to that, it is quite common to see massive parts falling into the water, splashing everything in a 50-meters radius.







Tomorrow in the afternoon, I'll hop on a bus to Puerto Natales, Chile. From there I plan on doing a 3-days trek into "Torres del Paine"... Don't worry, I won't go alone since it is forbidden. I'll probably need Friday to rent a tent, pack the necessary food and equipment for the 3-4 days. Hopefully, the water is drinkable pertty much everywhere here, so I will not need to carry 10 liters!

Pffff.... After 2 hours and 20 pesos, this blog is eventually up to date!

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi,
Very very impressive this glacier,
And the temperature does not seem to be that cold, if we consider your tee-shirt...
Best regards Jean-Yves

Anonymous said...

I still want fjords.

Anonymous said...

This sounds like endless trekking. I bet you're gonna bullshit a lot in US in a couple of weeks to compensate for all this sportiveness jajajajaja.

Anonymous said...

9 minutes, 42 seconds and 0.52 öre and I'm up-to-date with the commenting. I'll give you a tip (cause I'm in a very good mood today, unlike magnus, who sound quite pissed) : next time, schedule your posts.

Grégoire said...

You'll never want to go back to "le grand bornand" after everything you saw !

Pierre said...

I still want to go to Le Grand Bornand... Are we going for chrismas?

Manuel, you'll get your fjords in a couple days...

Grégoire said...

No idea, i'll let you know asap...

Anonymous said...

Hi,
We are probably going to Le grand Bornand, second week of vacation...
Not quite sure, but...
Best regards Jean-Yves

Pouic said...

Oula, cette fois, tu en as fait baver plus d'un à mon labo, avec ces photos de glaciers :-)

Et avec les gros morceaux de glace qui tombent, on peut faire des cocktails ? ;-)

ps: j'ai l'impression d'avoir rattrapé tous les posts que j'avais loupé ces derniers temps ;-)

Julyan said...

I'm looking for Isa from Madrid, someone knows that girl? Are you Isa?

Unknown said...

C'est complètement incroyable ces murs de glace; Et tu étais en T-Shirt à côté ? Pas froid ?

Pierre said...

Non non Lina, il faisait bon au soleil... (Mais des que le soleil se couvre, tu peux sortir la polaire, la goretex, etc.)