Perito Moreno Glacier
El Calafate, Argentina
Rested and easger to press on, the expedition team now ventured across the border into nearby Argentina. Differences in custom procedures between the two countries included only the Chileans checking for imported fruit, while the Argentinean border guards enjoyed playing ping pong in-between processing. On this day we drove across more of the Patagonian Steppe, east of Torres Del Paine, bound for El Calafate, and specifically, the Perito Moreno Glacier. Arriving at the glacier, I found it hard to describe. You could actually hear it moving, bustling, and ultimately rupturing itself away from the land as it seperates itself from Lago Argentino. The last known rupture of the glacier, as evidenced by the split in the pictures below, was in early February. The glacier is fed from the larger Patagonian Snow-Ice Fields that share a massive border between Chile and Argentina. The lakes and rock outcropping surrounding the glacier are further evidence of how large this glacier once was.
