Tuesday, November 18, 2008

El Chalten, Parque Nacional de los Glaciares

After the two-day journey along Ruta 40, I stopped two days in El Chalten. There is basically nothing to do in Chalten apart from trekking! I went the first day trekking with two girls, scottish and british, and a spanish guy (with whom I'll trek in Chile a couple days). We left at 9am to see "El Fitz Roy", a really beautiful mountain (but the top is quite hard to reach!). After lunch, we split because we guys wanted to walk more, and we went back to town at 8pm. It was really exhausting, but great!.

El Fitz Roy

The second day, I went alone for a 5-hour trek to another glaciar (alone because it was supposed to be an 8-hour trek and I only had 6 :-) ).

El Glaciar y el Lago Torre

I made it in time to take my evening bus to El Calafate. Then again, sunset (picture taken from the bus)...

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Un glacier de la taille de Buenos aires ?? la classeee :p.... nous remarquerons que tu es bien souvent en "trekk filles" !!!! Profite bien de la fraicheur du sud, parce que moi jveux du froid =) (je ne pensais pas dire ca un jour^^)... en remontant tu vas mourir de chaud ! niark niark niark bisouuuuus
LN

Anonymous said...

Hi,
Once again la hermanita shot first.
Congratulations to her !, and to the photograph, and mountain climber...
Best regards Jean-Yves

Anonymous said...

Buarpf. You probably should have climbed with the spaniard. Pretending to be weak to be supportive to the girls is not a good strategy.

Anonymous said...

Instead of trekking, you should blog more often, and one post at a time. Otherwise it's cheating.

Grégoire said...

But then where would he take nice pictures ? on google images ? :p

Pierre said...

Dont worry, I did not play the weak strategy, I left them after the lunch break with the spaniard....

Pierre said...

or rather, I left with the spaniard after lunch break.

Grégoire said...

Pierre has too much pride to play the weak strategy ... What were you thinking magnus ohlsson ? ! :p

Pouic said...

Ahh la deuxième photo me fait baver :)
J'espère bien que tu as pris plus de photos que ce que tu uploades, hein ? :)

Pierre said...

Si j uploadais toutes mes photos, ca prendrait un bail... J'en suis a 6Go.

Pouic said...

Héhé :)
Vivement les séances diapos :)