
Wanderings on and off the Alta Via 2 trek in the Italian Dolomites
One week traditional hut to hut trekking on the Alta Via 2 and one completely different week "making it up as we went along" heading south at a lower level
Grumpy old mountain man living in Spain

One week traditional hut to hut trekking on the Alta Via 2 and one completely different week "making it up as we went along" heading south at a lower level
Blizzards, snowdrifts, gales, frostbite, snow blindness, buried tents, floods, hardship, cold, sleepless nights. It must be summer then in deepest Patagonia.

A summary of our expeditions to the Southern Patagonian Icefields

My own personal experience of the effects of becoming snow blind, after a tough time on the Patagonian Icecap

The expedition was beset by unsettled weather and enforced route changes due to unseasonal warm weather.

Trip report, personal thoughts and recommendations after this years expedition to the Patagonian Icecap

It’s a tough trek to the Cirque de los Altares in Patagonia. The outcome is never certain. Raging rivers, complex moraines, huge glaciers and of course the constant battering from the prevailing westerly winds provide the main obstacles.
Poem by Michelle Wright about her time spent on our 2011 Southern Patagonian Icecap Expedition
Thought you might like to see one of the characters I met whilst in Patagonia recently. Its a White-throated Caracara (phalcoboenus albogularis).
Ok here we go, the long awaited video from our trip. Hope you dont get too bored! Patagonian Expedition 2010

We have to keep going, we are beyond the point of no return and safety lies ahead of us not behind us. Non of us have ever experienced anything like the 36 hours that that we lived through.
Report from Jane Fields on her experiences on the Patagonian Icefield Expedition in 2006