Base of Towers

Last day of hiking and it's the big one! Base of Towers in Patagonia - One of the world’s iconic walks 22km round trip in 6:45 hrs! Total ascent 1,082m - average heart rate 139bpm, max 159!
Absolutely awesome granite towers with a glacial pool below them - they are all over 2850m in height.
Completely knackered by the end but over the moon to have done it - the first hour and a half is brutal straight up, then a reprieve in a beech forest in the middle still with a decent ascent but the last kilometre is just picking your way between the rocks and boulders of the terminal moraine. Then you you reach the top and you have the stunning three granite monoliths above a blue glacial lagoon - just you .......and two hundred other walkers! This apparently wasn't a busy day!
A bonus on the walk was seeing the native woodpecker - both the red headed male and all black female.Read more