Day 3: Paso Huemul and iceberg camping

We were prepared for a slightly easier day. Although the tour description said that days 2 and 3 were “hard”, we looked at the map and only had 19km and few meters of altitude gain. We got up around 9:00 and left around 11:00 again - last ones to leave the camp :-O

The first part until the Huemul pass was indeed pleasant and we had great weather and, thus, great views over the ice fields and mountains beyond. Climbing the pass itself was not difficult but extremely windy (~ 60km/h) and we took only a few minutes for pictures until we descended on the other side.

Reaching about halfway down the decent, we saw that there were icebergs “parking” in the bay near to which we were going to camp. As we came closer, we could hear the thundering crashing sounds, when two bumped into each other. Fascinating!

We set camp at the second lagoon and even went for a quick bath in the ice cold water :-))))Read more