This is what we came for! A couple of hours drive from El Calafate beside Lagos Argentina we come across the amazing Moreno Glacier. We spent 4 hours taking in the vastness and majesty of the glacier that ends at the lake. The statistics are impressive: the glacier is over 2 km wide, 220km long, around 200m high at the edge of the lake with 40-60m above the water surface, it is in perfect equilibrium moving 2m every day but not growing or receding. But much more impressive than that was to see it action as huge blocks of ice weighing hundreds of tons would sporadically come crashing into the lake before our very eyes. The resulting boom was like an explosion and sent waves rolling across the lake before the massive chard would upend itself in the lake becoming an iceberg of brilliant blue that is hard to describe .... so there’s lots of photos above.
Ming (see Jan 10) also kept us entertained scurrying around with his yellow vest and two video cameras capturing the glacier in all its glory plus endless hours of inane activity that would threaten to put any viewer into a coma. Amazingly his dedication to the trivial and obscure (such as people putting on raincoats, unloading bags from busses, filming the inside of busses and hotel lobbies) remained unabated for the entire trip.
We drove back to El Calafate in the afternoon and set off on the 3 hour local bus to El Chalten that evening. Arriving late we all headed to the nearest restaurant for a quick bite so we could get to bed at a decent hour (1am) to prepare ourselves for our first big hike.
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