cortomaltese has added a photo to the pool:
Laguna Torre
The day before had been very beautiful and I had been able to enjoy a very nice hike to Fitz Roy massif.
That day I had planned to hike to Laguna Torre, at the foot of Cerro Torre, one of the most beautiful mountains in the world, the queen of the dreams of every mountaineer. A narrow vertical granitic needle, with the top concealed in an ice hood in wintertime. This ice cap forms because of constant very moist and strong west winds from the Pacific Ocean.
And that day exactly that wind was blowing, so strong that on the shore of the laguna I hardly could stay upright. After having swept the vast stretch of Hielo Continental Patagónico Sur and having become icy cold, that steadily very strong wind slipped into the two valleys that soprround the base of Cerro Torre and at last run out roaring over the small Laguna, making its waves surf and pushing and than ammassing on the shore the small iceberg from the glacier at the base of the mountain. With its strenght it raised whirls of dirt and water and, being very fast, it kept them suspended and they hit you on the trail even very far from here.
But the even worse thing was that even with this wind blowing so strong, the half top of Cerro Torre remained constantly hiden in a thick cloudy layer, and that's the reason for the absnce of the beautiful mountain from the picture, whose real main character is the Patagonic wind!
Los Glaciares National Park
Prov. Santa Cruz - Argentina
Notes // On Black // Interesthings // Continente Patagonia
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