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Patagonia 2 { 244 images } Created 8 Dec 2014

Additional images from Patagonia (mostly the Argentinian side). For a small portfolio set please see gallery Patagonia 1 (http://galleries.peakimages.co.uk/gallery/Patagonia-1/G0000lYrg2adCMSk)
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  • Another group came past on our rest day - they were disappointed to see the snow wall was occupied and carried on about 1km further down the ice cap to make their own snow walls.
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  • Another group came past on our rest day - they were disappointed to see the snow wall was occupied and carried on about 1km further down the ice cap to make their own snow walls.
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  • Snowshoes can make surprisingly good tent pegs when wildcamping in snow
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  • Snowshoes can make surprisingly good tent pegs when wildcamping in snow
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  • Clive Tully enjoying the view from the campsite
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  • Clive Tully enjoying the view from the campsite
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  • Clive Tully enjoying the view from the campsite
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  • Kiersten Rowland peeking out from behind the loo block snow wall
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  • Kiersten Rowland enjoying the view from the campsite
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  • Kiersten wrapped up warm in Berghaus down jacket against the biting cold first thing in the morning
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  • Richard and Kiersten wrapped up warm in Berghaus down jackets against the biting cold first thing in the morning
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  • The three wise folks, or should that be the three brightly coloured folks... - Mick, Kiersten and Richard looking out across the ice cap towards the Viedma and Upsala glaciers
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  • Kiersten and Richard looking out across the ice cap towards the Viedma and Upsala glaciers
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  • Kiersten wrapped up warm in Berghaus down jacket against the biting cold first thing in the morning
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  • Discussions by the snow wall
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  • Kiersten enjoying the views from the ice camp at Circo de los Altares
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  • Kiersten enjoying the views from the ice camp at Circo de los Altares
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  • Circo de los Altares campsite - all four tents huddled together behind a snow wall
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  • Ian Tupman eating porridge in the unexpected morning sun (despite the cold temperatures!)
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  • Chocolate waffles - it takes a very hardened chocoholic to eat all of this!
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  • Stone walls act as windbreaks at La Playita wildcamp (at the W end of Lago Electrico).
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  • Clive adding to the windbreak around his and Peter's tent
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  • View up the Upper Rio Electrico
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  • All the tents huddle behind a large wall of rock - which acts as a natural windbreak - at La Playita wildcamp, Patagonia
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  • Piedre del Fraile refuge exterior wall
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  • Reuben rejoins the team having opted for the very wet lower crossing on the surprisingly awkward Pollone river
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  • The Rio Electrico runs beside La Playita wildcamp (and sometimes floods it!)
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  • Richard enjoying the first hints of sunshine – potentially a real break in the wet and windy weather - at the base of the Marconi glacier.
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  • Descending past a large scoured rock outcrop on the return to La Playita from the base of the Marconi Glacier - route finding was slightly tricky on first ascent past this.
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  • A work of art - Clive's stone garden outside his and Peter's tent - complete with miniature "Cerro Torre" sculpture (aka a conveniently shaped rock!)
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  • Once above the glacier snout the terrain becomes increasingly icy.
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  • View up towards Cerro Marconi Norte, with the avalanching rock band and seracs below on the ascent of the Marconi Glacier
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  • Heading towards the seracs as we ascend the Marconi Glacier
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  • Clive pauses to survey the route ahead shortly before we rope up under the seracs on the Marconi Glacier
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  • Heading towards the thin line between an awkward rock band to the right and the avalanche zone left of the seracs on the Upper Marconi Glacier
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  • Below the seracs on the Marconi Glacier - this ice cave was quite picturesque and the seracs above provided some degree of protection from avalanches from just above a rock band just to their south
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  • On previous trips lead by Richard and Kiersten this was completely snow covered and just part of the easy but long final snow plod onto the Ice Cap.
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  • Avalanche debris near to the serac zone on the Upper Marconi Glacier
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  • Ian looks down onto avalanche debris near to the serac zone on the Upper Marconi Glacier
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  • Increasingly good views of Gorra Blanca signify progress on the final slope to the Ice Cap
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  • The long snow plod above the Marconi Glacier never seems to end!
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  • Fitzroy looms imposingly above Cerro Pollone
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  • Increasingly good views of Gorra Blanca signify progress on the final slope to the Ice Cap
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  • Campsite on the Patagonian ice cap (Campo del Hielo Sur) - just beyond the funnelling effect of the Marconi Pass
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  • Shades of white - view across the Patagonian ice cap
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  • Gorra Blanca from the Ice Cap
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  • Packing up from the first ice camp as we prepare to move along the edge of the Patagonian Ice Cap to Circo de los Altares
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  • Team one trekking into the white - on snowshoes along the Patagonian ice cap
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  • A brief snack stop during the trek along the Patagonian ice cap between Marconi Pass and Circo de Los Altares
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  • Another group came past on our rest day - they were disappointed to see the snow wall was occupied and carried on about 1km further down the ice cap to make their own snow walls.
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  • The yellowbrick satellite transceiver which enabled us to receive txt-based weather forecasts
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  • Ice camp at Circo de Los Altares - we get the least protected position on the edge of the snowwall as we have the most stable tent (F10 Vortex 200)
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  • Ian and Richard surveying the view pre-dawn at Circo de los Altares
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  • Richard enjoying a much needed warming brew at Circo de Los Altares
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  • Cloud rising from Cordon Mariano Moreno, Patagonian Ice Cap
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  • The Circo de Los Altares corrie is surrounded by high and impressive peaks - notably including a rare view of both Fitzroy and Cerro Torre (in clear conditions!)
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  • Circo de los Altares campsite - all four tents huddled together behind a snow wall
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  • Kiersten enjoying the views from the ice camp at Circo de los Altares
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  • Richard and Peter discussing the view at Circo de los Altares ice camp
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  • Morning light over Circo de los Altares
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  • Cordon Mariano Moreno emerging from cloud from Circo de los Altares ice camp
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  • Clive Tully pulling a sledge around Circo de los Altares ice camp
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  • The Upper Viedma glacier is now in sight
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  • Crossing the Upper Viedma Glacier
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  • Crevasse on the Glaciar Rio Tunel (below Paso del Viento), Patagonia
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  • View from the camp at Lago Toro
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  • View out the tent window on the Patagonian ice cap
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  • Wild camp on the Patagonian Ice Cap at Circo de Los Altares
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  • Ice camp at Circo de Los Altares
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  • Breaking camp at circo de los Altares
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  • Camp at Laguna Ferrari - the wind breaks are once again made of rocks rather than snow!
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  • Team photo at the Rio Electrico trailhead - start of the expedition onto the ice cap.
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