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This was shot in the final hours of daylight, near the southern tip of Argentina and the edge of Chile, just a glacier's throw from Antarctica.
In the morning, we woke up at 4:30 AM in -7 degree cold. I hardly slept 30 minutes the whole night. I was in a tiny 2-man tent with Yuri. The noxious fumes of our tiny prison reminded me, if you will, of the inside of a tauntaun that had spent its life consuming cognac and cigarettes. Furthermore, his snore had the sonorous bass and carrying power of a humpback whale with none of the beauty.
I started on one edge of these rugged peaks and moved around to this side, to get the view from the glacial lake. The spiked mountains there are Cerro Torre, and I was very lucky to see them without cloud cover. I understand they are covered up 90% of the time, so to have crystal clear air was fortunate. The glacier there, which presents on the right but really goes back behind many more mountains, is called "glacier grande".
I did a lot of other things this day too, including a 45-minute 1500-foot ascent up an icy trail that was not really a trail at all. Dima and Vulva (Vulva is one of the other Russian gentleman who joined us on the trip -- it's hard to pronounce with a strange V-W sound, but he seemed to respond when I called him "Vulva") went up the mountain with me in the pitch black, using only headlamps. I'll have more on that story later because it was pretty sketchy. But, alas, we were able to see Fitz Roy as the sun turned the tips pink. After that, we began the long additional 10km hike that brought us to this location. I stayed here watching icebergs float by until the last morsels of dusk remained.
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Alessandro Piazzini 7 months ago | reply
Che bella foto !
Vinko Jovanovac 6 months ago | reply
amazing
Marcelo Schythe 5 months ago | reply
Epic photo!
♥ Peg ♥Have a great day♥ 5 months ago | reply
That's really wonderful, good work!
BoomerSooner2011 3 months ago | reply
nice!
Tod Polson 3 months ago | reply
Super color
ATL Braves 3 months ago | reply
So incredable. :)
Cornishcarolin Back boooo. Playing catch up! 2 months ago | reply
I could easily live with this stunning shot on my wall. Amazing! xx
Ian@NZFlickr 2 months ago | reply
A very memorable shot and delightful story!
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Kasia Sokulska (KasiaBasic) 2 months ago | reply
Lovely!
Sergey S Ponomarev 2 months ago | reply
Great cold landscape!
larroyo33 2 months ago | reply
Definitely my favorite picture of yours!
Kris Kros 2 months ago | reply
Very impressive.
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