Fran West Walkabout on the Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina

In January this year I followed another dream, to trek in Patagonia in southern Chile and Argentina.

As an added bonus, the tour included a trip to the Perito Moreno Glacier.
We were going to go on a glacier trek but first we had to have crampons fitted to our boots.


The guide then taught us how to walk on the ice with them. His best description was to "walk like a monkey" while really digging our boots into the ice for a good grip.





Then it was walking over soft crunchy ice and looking down into the clear blue depths of water-filled crevasses. And in the background was the thundrous roar of the glacier calving into the lake, Lago Argentino.