Bariloche in the Lake District of Patagonia.The common area of our hotel.On the way up to the base of Fitz Roy.East face of Cerro Torre, taken the next day on our shorter hike.Now down to the Calafate area, visiting the Perito Moreno Glacier.Even when you’re next to it, it’s impossible to comprehend the size. There is just no sense of scale. These peaks are about five stories above the water. The electric blue piece in the water, which is closer to us than it looks, is at least the size of two school buses. Because of the color, you can tell this piece is super-dense ice, meaning it broke from the bottom and floated up.~Five miles of glacier, slowly advancing over the mountain, fed by the Southern Patagonia Ice Field. The field is 6,000 square miles, larger than Connecticut.Zooming out.All three faces, seen from the catwalks across the water. The part we walked on in the first picture is just barely visible at the far left. It’s the tiny peak you can see at the edge of the frame.Back on the glacier side. Every four years or so, the ice reaches the opposite shore, and creates an ice bridge and a dam. This sign marks the highest level of the lake during the last the bridge in 2018. Apparently, glacier fanatics from all over the world booked stays for that whole summer, and bought tickets into the national park every single day, wanting to see the rupture. Then it broke overnight and no one saw it 😦 .
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