The Torres del Paine
Trip Start
Mar 01, 2006
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Trip End
Dec 01, 2007
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Torres del Paine National Park,
Chile
Monday, March 26, 2007
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We left a bit after 6 to see the Torres.
It took a good 40 minutes hike up, quite steep in a boulder field: not the best early start.
When I got up there, daylight was already there, as well as... Robert, our American co-hiker from Chalten/Torre/Fitzroy. We had tea together.
We climbed to the top of the moraine, the lake was under us, the air was very very cold, and after a while the Torres del Paine lit up with their famed orange color (That can seen on any mountain that catches the first rays of sun, by the way, but chhhht, people think it happens only there...). Paine means blue, by the way.
It was magnificent. There was rock, snow, ice, wind, and a blue sky. And later the sun.
We were the last to go down to the campground, as we could not extract ourselves from the spell.
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