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Ice Field And Icebergs

Written by on February 7, 2009 – 2:20 pm23 Comments
Perito Moreno´s Glacier

Per­ito Moreno´s Glacier

Do you have any idea how loud is the sound of a huge chunk of ice falling into the frozen waters?

Slowly going North, we stopped in El Calafate after Tor­res Del Paine. The sleepy town isn´t so sleepy any­more and has become a gate­way to the nearby most spec­tac­u­lar glac­ier in the world: Per­ito Moreno.

Being Cana­di­ans, we are no stranger to ice, snow and any­thing else frozen. Yet, this glac­ier is one of the most amaz­ing nat­ural won­der I have ever seen.

Per­ito Moreno is 80 kilo­me­ters away from El Calafate, in the Par­que Nacional Los Glacia­res. The glac­ier is basi­cally a low gap in the Andes where the snow has accu­mu­lated and recrys­tal­lized into ice.

Upon arriv­ing at the glac­ier, it looks like a long and thick river of ice in between many moun­tains. But as we got closer, what sur­prised me the most was the loud sound of ice breaking.

We strolled a long series of cat­walk, some above the 60 meters high glac­ier, some much lower and closer. The ice block is not com­pact, it is a river of thick jagged peaks, some milky and gray­ish, some deep blue.

As the sun hit the face of the glac­ier, around noon, we wit­nessed sev­eral huge chunk of ice col­laps­ing in the Canales de los Tém­panos (Ice­berg Chan­nel). Enor­mous blocks sud­denly crashed into the water, caus­ing a huge wave, tem­po­rally clear­ing the water of other ice­bergs for a few minutes.

I had never seen, nor heard, any­thing like that before… Def­i­nitely worth a visit.

From The Top

From The Top

The Glacier

The Glac­ier

Huge Ice Peaks

Huge Ice Peaks

A Huge Chunk Just Fell...

A Huge Chunk Just Fell…

The Lake

The Lake

The Whole Glacier

The Whole Glacier

Huge Wave After A Chunk Of Ice Fell

Huge Wave After A Chunk Of Ice Fell

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  • Zhu says:

    @Jules @ Lovely Las Vegas — Wow! See, just for the expe­ri­ence you had, I wish I had taken sci­ences a bit more seri­ously instead of fool­ing around study­ing Chi­nese. You are the first per­son I know who have been to Antac­tica, I wish I had a spe­cial award to give you! :-)

    The stamp thing does make sense I guess. I had heard that it was pos­si­ble to get an Antarc­tica stamp but I have no idea how/ where.

    @Agnes — It is amazing!

    @Max Coutinho — Me too, I´m more made of fire :lol: but I must say this one blew me away.

    @Khengsiong — This glac­ier is actu­ally the anti-global warm­ing since it is pro­gress­ing fast (2 meters a year I think).

  • I absolutely love this place — it was one of the best things I have ever seen. You’re right about the noise as the ice falls into the water — such loud creak­ing and groan­ing!
    Thanks for bring­ing back mem­o­ries — Abi
    .-= Abi from Inside the Travel Lab´s last blog ..Liq­uid Gold & Mud Slides =-.

  • Jully says:

    Must agree def­i­nitely worth a visit. Place is just amaz­ing. Huge ice­bergs looks so powerful.

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