Leaving San Rafael
We left Trotamundos Hostel in San Rafael on New Year’s day 2013 with a group of friends and a packed trailer with food and water for the long open road to San Luis!
Un día en la vida de…
03:23 necesito hacer pis. Es una buena señal, por lo menos quiere decir que por fin estoy bebiendo suficiente agua. Me contorsiono un poco para ver si el pis encuentra un lugar libre en mi vejiga donde meterse, y me deja dormir un rato más. Infructuoso intento, así que me arrastro hasta la puerta de …
In the Frying Pan between San Rafael and San Luis, Argentina
[start] We’re lying in a pool of our own sweat in a cattle pen. It was all that we could find. It was 1200 noon; too late. The thermometer read nearly 100 deg F. or 38 deg C. We have run our daily 20 mile fight and even though we woke up at 0500, we …
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The Long Winding Road
It all began in ice, snow and blizzards. We found ourselves swimming naked through sub-zero rivers in a Patagonian winter, wading through snow drifts, stumbling over jagged coastal cliffs, crawling under crowded limbs of southern beech forests and chasing puma tracks on our way to the most southerly point of continental South America, Cabo Froward. …
Relief: In the Andes Rain Shadow.
Key Words: Precipitation, Pacific Ocean, Chile, Prevailing Wind, Andes, Vapour, Condensation, Glaciers, Adapt, Rain shadow, Relief Rain For the first part of our expedition we ran through rain and snow in southern Chile. Precipitation is the term used for rain, sleet, hail and snow; any form of water that falls from the sky. This precipitation …
Winners of the Christmas Charity Draw Wildlife Paintings
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who entered our Christmas Charity Draw. We sold 98 tickets, raising a grand total of US$708, or GBP 442.50. This is now winging its way to Conservacion Patagonica our fantastic charity who are restoring extremely threatened wildlands and wildlife in southern Chile. The two lucky winners are: Gill Reid …
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Difficult Times Turn to Great! Part 3
16 December 2012, Goat Corral, El Zampal, Argentina. The wind tore at the tent during the night. The dead thorny branches used to form the corral around us was powerless against the mini twisters that shook our home like a leaf, dumping sand and dried dung pellets all over it and us. Needless to say, …
The Independent Blog: A stitch in time for the Ozone Hole, a cause for celebration?
As I wake up inside our puffy down-feather sleeping bag, the body aches from running a marathon yesterday and the mind aches with the reality that Katharine, my fellow adventure runner and I will do it again today and tomorrow too. We are running the length of South America in a year, hauling our trailer …
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Burrowing Parrots in the Desert
When you think of parrots, what do you see? Bright colours, squawking calls, luscious rainforests…. The first two definitely apply to the screeching, colourful flocks flying over us, but the last; NOT. Here in one of the most menacingly arid and hostile lands either of us have run through; where thorns the size of chop-sticks …
Endangered Animals: Patagonian Huemul Deer
Key words: Endangered, habitat, threatened, decomposition, extinct, over-grazing One evening whilst running over a mountain pass in southern Chile, with snow on either side of the road, we noticed some mammals grazing on the hillside. We stopped to look through our binoculars and guess what we found: PATAGONIAN HUEMUL DEER!!!