Glacier Perito Moreno

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After a few big trekking days we left Torres NP in search of the most famous glacier on the continent and its closest town El Calafate. El Calafate is a Mecca for cold climate travellers and sits at the southern entrance of Los Glacieres National Park. It was also hosting a long weekend music festival when we rolled into town making for a very crowded introduction! We set the van down a couple of blocks back from the main stage of the festival and wandered the craft markets and local brewpub taking in the music and the crowds.
In the morning we took the hour-long drive to the entrance of the national park and towards Glacier Perito Moreno. The glacier is enormous: 5km across the face and 60m high, it covers 296km2 rising from the lake into the surrounding mountains. We spent the day walking on the 4km of steel pathways, trying to capture the moment huge chunks of ice cracked off the glacier and smashed into the lake. We saw a few but weren't quick enough to get anything decent on camera. In the evening we drove north to El Chaltén, the northern entrance of the national park, and spent the night under the watchful eye of Cerros FitzRoy and Torre.

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