Wednesday 25 February 2009

El Chalten to Villa O´Higgins. 12/02 - 15/02 : Mud, Sweat and Tears

That´s tears as in rips, we ain´t no wimps!!


The journey consisted of bike, ferry, walk, bike, ferry, bike.

Day 1.
An easy ride past Fitz Roy, unfortunately it was too cloudy to see the mountains in their full glory.









Then either a 40 minute ferry ride or a 5 hour hike to the Argentinian border. Guess which we chose.









Day 2. More rain.
Walking 3 miles in 3 hours up hill on mud, rocks, shale, over logs and rivers.














We were joking what obstacles we hadn´t encountered when we came across...















Day 3.
36 hours of rain hadn´t dampened our spirits












15km of biking, 1 ripped tyre and 2 sets of brake blocks later we arrived at the port to find 20 people who´d been waiting for the ferry for 4 days...












Luckily we only had to wait 4 hours.

72 hours after leaving the last village in Argentina, we arried in the first village in Chile!

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