What images do you see when you think of Patagonia? An icy steppe? Well, there is that – but as we sailed through Chile’s fjords we also found lush rainforests and turquoise waters. Now, as we travel in our recycled trailer through a Patagonian winter, we are discovering another unexpected sight; the Lenga forest…. Follow …
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quick update from the satphone – we are at the junction between two roads, one leads directly on our chosen route, a neat road that leads to a path through a velley into chile and a boat awaits us to cross lago o’higens on the 8th September. The other involves a 800km workaround through Argentina …
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We are currently minutes away from resuming the run, and what happens next promises to be interesting. Last week we had to cross to Argentina to bypass the Campo Hielo Sur (Southern Ice Field) , a dramatic natural barrier which literally slices through Chile and makes the country only pasable by 3 day ferry overland …
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Key words: Camouflage, Pampas, Chile, Argentina, Least Seedsnipe Yesterday we were running through a very flat landscape of yellows, browns and dark greens. Tussocky spiky grasses and low thorny scrub stretched into the horizon with pebbles and boulders for miles. This is the Pampas- the grassland and shrubland of southern Chile and Argentina. A wild …
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Having problems connecting to wifi at the moment…sorry for the sloth-like email responses and updates. Basically we’re hitting our heads against the wall trying.. but not succeeding. On the road we had ice and snow; which froze everything including the pans, laptop, our fingers and well our brians… But the main problem now is internet …
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According to the plan we laid out for the first month we should be running machines by now, easily chewing up 100 mile weeks – are we? The last section has been a real challenge for our bodies, yet again forced to take 10 days worth of supplies for a lack of
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En Puerto Natales dimos nuestra primera presentación a un grupo de estudiantes de 12, 13 y 17 años, sus profesores y un funcionario del gobierno del área del medio ambiente. Y aunque parezca mentira, lo hicimos en español. Un bautismo de fuego que fue