31.III. Up at 6.00 to catch a bus to Parque Nacional Torres del Paine with Eike and Rob (a poor helpless English boy we picked up on the cruise…..hmmm, that’s not a sentence I think I´ll be repeating that often), with the intention of hiking ‘The W’- a four or five day walk shaped, interestingly enough, like a W. We hired tents and took enough food to last a few days , and set off gleefully in the Patagonian sunshine. About half an hour later we were getting blown backwards down a hill and questioning our sanity. Apparently the weather changes quite quickly. We stayed at a cool little camp site in the woods that night and got up early the next morning to walk up to Los Torres for sunrise. It was pretty spectacular. We
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