Argentine Tierra del Fuego: Lightly bumping the buffers
Reaching Ushuaia and running out of land to explore south could have been so many things. What it actually turned out to be was typical, ordinary and completely ‘normal’. Ushuaia: […]
Category Archives: Patagonia
Chilean Tierra del Fuego: The warm fires of Gaucholandia
Tierra del Fuego, the land of fire, a far off island that has all too quickly became the ground beneath my tires. Although never anything more than just an exotic […]
Peachy, Beachy, Patagonian Business
Leah recently admitted to me that when we were arranging to meet up she thought I might be a touch deluded with my plans. A large hunk of my favorite […]
A towering Paine in the pampa
Chris Bonnington, Don Whillans, Dougal Haston, Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker and my hero Doug Scott, just a few of the men that made up the golden generation of British mountaineering. […]
Glacier Perito Moreno… Big, blue and built like a brick shithouse
Like any natural wonder worth its salt, the first glimpse of Glacier Perito Moreno is something that stays with you. A living breathing solid poetry of fresh water, this enormous […]
Seek and you’ll probably find… Spinning dirt to El Calafate
Somewhere along my journey south I picked up the idea that southern Chile and Argentina would hold very few, if any route options. Somehow the ‘knowledge’ that there is only […]
Monte Fitz Roy… A mountain worth waiting for
Jutting a distinguished 3,375 metres into the Patagonian sky, Monte Fitz Roy is one of the regions true icons. Tamed for the first time in 1952 by the French duo […]
Austral acceptance & a nod to ‘normality’
I have quickly learned the power of the Patagonian weather and its ability to gift the cowering traveler time. They said it couldn’t be done, but here it is, a post […]
Velo Freedom 