This is pretty cool! The southern Andes have 46 glaciers that, together, comprise the Southern Ice Field. These glaciers are low enough in elevation to see up close, but also to hike on! How cool is that?
Above is the glacier, Glacier Moreno, at the edge of Largo Argentina, the lake into which it "calves" off huge chunks of ice every fifteen minutes or so. You know there's been a calving because it sounds like thunder!
Closer up you can see the edge of the glacier. It's three miles wide, 150 feet tall and eight miles deep. This pic can't convey how big it is.
The ice is so dense that it refracts light in a deep blue color. Gorgeous.
Off we go, hiking on a glacier!
That's me with our expedition leader Kevin. So much fun!
Tomorrow we fly to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, where we will board the ship for our Antarctic adventure.
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