Blizzards, snowdrifts, gales, frostbite, snow blindness, buried tents, floods, hardship, cold, sleepless nights. It must be summer then in deepest Patagonia.
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Featured Posts
- A Collection of My Favourite Mountaineering Quotes
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Latest Posts
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Trips to the wild and windswept Patagonian IcefieldA summary of our expeditions to the Southern Patagonian Icefields
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Debilitating effects of Snowblindness, a personal experienceMy own personal experience of the effects of becoming snow blind, after a tough time on the Patagonian Icecap
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Oh, Patagonia, to leave you we shall weepBrilliant Poem by Michelle Wakeley about her time spent on our 2010 Southern Patagonian Icecap Expedition
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Patagonian Icecap Expedition 2016The expedition was beset by unsettled weather and enforced route changes due to unseasonal warm weather.
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The Importance of Teamwork on an ExpeditionThere is no room for individuals if you plan to visit wild, untamed mountain wilderness. Every day can have it’s own challenges and difficulties. Teamwork is everything!
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Expedition Trip Report Patagonian Icecap November 2014Trip report, personal thoughts and recommendations after this years expedition to the Patagonian Icecap
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Lounging at the Altar of the Patagonian Mountain GodsIt’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.
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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.
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