Patagonia Glacier Walk

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Click on any image to move to the next page, hiking [on dry land!] Patagonia.

Getting a look at Patagonia's Perito Moreno glacier from a crampon's point of view.

The closest you will get to a glacier is if you walk on it, not something you can do on your own as Argentina would prefer that its visitors don't tragically disappear down the many deep blue crevices. Thus a posse of guides is needed to herd even small groups safely over the ice for a couple of hours.
The trip is costly but guides are knowledgeable and the experience fascinating. Crampons - supplied - are essential as groups move fairly freely over uncharted territory, unlike, for example, glacier hikes in some parts of the world where visitors simply walk in file on a flat, well-trod, non-slippery path.

Walking the Perito Moreno glacier.

Deep and meaningful crevice discussions on the glacier.

One of the glacier guides, a champion ice climber, demonstrates his technique.

The end-of-trek scotch-on-the rocks party.

At the end of the Perito Moreno glacier trek the guides spring a surprise, a free scotch whisky and chocolate bar hidden in one of the glacier valleys, the perfect end to an icy two hour walk...12 year-old scotch on 60,000 year old rocks.

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