Today I have been on the glacier "Perito Moreno". Roman (thanks for that by the way!) recommended me a quite expensive tour that allows you to walk over three hours ON the glacier itself. The whole tour lasts 10 hours.
I expected it to be really cold so I wore 3 pairs of socks and over that plastic foil, since I got no other shoes then the Freeruns (sportive sneaker). A leggins and a jeans for the legs, long sleeve t-shirt l, pullover a heavy jacket a tube-style scarf that can be pulled over the face and a hat to keep the head warm.
Also ready to rob a bank!Well I was somehow overdressed. I didn't need the plastic foil since my shoes never got wet (got rid of it eventually) and the tube style scarf neither. I think I would have been good without the leggings but it didn't hurt either. The glacier is just on 800 meters above sea level or so. It is created between several mountains in the Andes where it has a thickness of 1200 meters. That's more or less 1,2km or 1200000mm. It's a lot! (And yes I'm talking about the ice sheet only).The glacier stretches out and has at it's end "only" a thickness of 300 meters, the majority is hidden by Argentinias biggest lake you will see in the pictures (yes everything here is the superlative, this place is just incredible).On its end the ice has an age of around 200 years, it moves by 2 meters A DAY and 20-30cm melt every day away from the top. This also means that the tour I did was a new excursion on the ice. It changes every day. The guides just have a rough orientation and no path they follow since any path you create literally just melts away.This is the first picture I took, you see the huge mass of ice in the background.It's getting bigger..And BOOM. Suddenly it's there, this rough monstrosity of nature.The black lines you see is sediment that is beeing pushed up from the ground. The ice grinds its way through the earth.These shots are taken at the first stop, a tourist viewing platform. Super impressive and every few minutes you would hear it cracking, and ice falling into the water, followed by more cracks when it breaks upon impact on the water, then splashing sounds. The noise gets really intense when the parts are big.We spent there an hour, then crossed the water with a boat and basically walked on the left side of the glacier on "normal" soil for an hour to gain some distance.This is the beginning of the walk.Already pretty cool stuff here..This waterfall was on the way, just a sweet cherry on top..Thiiiis is where we were going!We got these to walk on the ice.And there we are!I'm not posting more picture here in the text section, this would be endless. There are dozens in the foto section (scroll up, click on fotos).If there ever was a post where you had to check the foto section, this is probably it!! We also got some whiskey on the end of the tour, which was nice.On the ice I felt like a small kid of 13 years again who is in Disneyland or something. Around every corner a new structure, after every hill some cool lake. This incredible blue color of the ice is crazy beautiful. I'm still totally amazed while I'm writing this. It's no exaggeration when I say that this is the greatest thing I've seen and experienced on this trip so far. It's been completely otherworldly and stunning. And it also increased my wishes to travel to Antarctica once in my life.. Definitely want to got here! Today I'll finish the day with some beers (from the supermarket, everything is super expensive) and will see if I find Flamingos tomorrow. Oh and of course I made also some videos of the thing, they are here:https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1TwCuCTwK6qx7xbE9o7ny3fv-4GPzNprC
