4 days, 3 nights, 1 tent, 50km, 2 vultures, 1 Southern American grey fox, 5 condors, 1 mouse, 1 (minor) lip wobble....this was the "W"! The route named for the shape of the walk over the mountains of the Torres del Paine national park in Patagonia. Having arrived the day before from Punta Arenas on a bus that could have qualified for the Monaco grand prix (made worse given one had flipped leaving 18 people in hospital the day before), we set off from Puerto Natales 2 1/2 hrs to the national park where we were met by guanacos a distant wild relative of llamas. Unfortunately we were never to see the Nandu (this inspired the roadrunner character from Looney Tunes as it avoids the futile attempts from the Coyote as it drops an anvil from
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