Last summer I worked with a guy who talked my ear off about how rad the Patagonian Icefields were. After working down there on a NOLS mountain course in the San Lorenzo area it didn’t take much for him to convince me to buy a plane ticket to join him and another guy I didn’t know on a traverse of the Northern Patagonian Icefield — one of the most remote places on earth. His vision was for small range of mostly-unclimbed peaks on the Western edge of the icefield: through various human- and internal-combustion powered means, travel across a huge lake or three, up and down some big rivers, across 42 miles of ice, and climb some unclimbed peaks. I’ll let the video tell most of the story:

Unbelievably bad weather. Good people. Great times. More photos and info on my Hielo Norte trip report page.

After some down time and work time in the Tetons this winter I’m headed back to Patagonia to work a course for NOLS and then on to a spring time of romping around the PNW. Peace!