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Open The first day, we lands in an airport isolated near Coilhaque. We follow in minibus the road named "Jour1". The first panaroma of Andes of Patagonia is the following: It will be approximately the same thing until Punta Arenas: a small forest until 3300ft (mavbe a little more), then snow and glaciers above 3900ft to 4900ft according to degree of latitude . |
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Open It is a photograph of the Lake "General Carrera". The wheater was nice, and we even could have a swim at the end of day: |
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Open On the edge of this lake, a seaplane offers to fly above the north ice field for $90. Here are some photographs. This is a valley which sinks between the glaciers, and behind these glaciers there is the north ice field and the Pacific. |
Open A river seen from plane... |
Open The north ice field, and the first clouds of west coast appear. This day, it will be absolutely covered on Pacific coast, and we will have a fine weather in the lake " General Careira ". |
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Open The edge of a lake located on the pacific coast... |
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Open A photo catch the day 3 from the lake "General Careira"... |
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Open We are in Cochrane... |
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Open The camping in the south of Cochrane... |
Open A bridge above a river... |
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Open It must be a view on Cerro Arenales (11410ft), a summit in the middle of the north ice field (day 4) in the massif of San Rafael. |
Open A insulated refuge that is not frequently used below this summit... |
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Open Always Cerro Arenales... |
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Open A wooden fire in the evening in the camping (at the end of day 4). The guardian cooks a lamb in the evening cooks in wooden fire, like a michoui... |
Open In view of on the vicinity of campings. We had -5°C in the early hours in morning, but it was good in the day... An instant of after the meal, with some more log to restarted fire.. . |
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Open Return towards buses, to join Cochrane in the evening. |
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Open On the road of Cochrane (day 5) |
Open Then we go off in Argentina eastward to take a road direction south. By going out of Andes, we cross the east foothills of Andes (day 6): |
Open Always between Cochrane and El Chapten |
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Open Always between Cochrane and El Chapten. Here we are in the middle of the Argentinian steppes... |
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Open Arrival towards El Chapten (day 7): |
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Open El Chapten. |
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Open And here is the Monte Fitz-Roy (11073ft, day 8) Assembles it. |
Open A valley between Fitz-Roy and El Chapten. |
Open We went to see another summit after Fitz-Roy, but the fine weather stayed in Argentinian... |
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Open The day 10, leaving El Calafate, we discover rocks with original colours (sedimentary deposit). |
Open We are in front of the glacier Perito Moreno. The height of ice varies between 200 in 260ft, and the glacier moves is of 5.7ft/day. It is directly fed by the south ice field. |
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Open Detachment of a block of ice. It arrives permanently... |
Open Sunset the evening on Perito Moreno. |
Open Day 11: arrival near to Torres del Paine national park . We falls on a shade games with the mountain and the lake... |
Open Torres del Paine n ational park (day 12): |
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Open The lake Grey (day 13). |
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Open Approach by boat of the glacier Grey (day 14). |
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Open The Grey glacier seen from the mountain (1600ft of altitude, after 3h of not-stop walk since the refuge): |
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Open By leaving the P.N. Torres de Paine (day 15), there is again a pretty landscape. |
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Open The trek is finish. Take off from Punta Arenas for Santiago. We sees pretty landscape... |
Open ... that I photograph! Then I apply a good numerical correction to delete the white of the air. |
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large photograph of patagionie - photo of field of ice - photograph of glacier and lake - photograph of Cochrane - photograph of the Argentinian pampa - photograph of El Chapten - photograph of Assembles Fitz-Roy - photograph of the glacier Perito Moreno - photograph of Perito Moreno - photograph of the National park Torres del Paine - photograph of the lake grey - large photograph of glacier seen of plane
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