Five days hiking around Torres del Paine was cold, exhausting and breathtaking. This is the first time we have been able to combine a hike with a fancy glacial boat tour. We were just a few feet away from a massive glacier that was around 5 km wide and 37km long - huge. The lake we travelled on to reach the glacier was equally beautiful with blue icebergs bobbing around in the water. We could have been in Antarctica if it wasn't for the nearby mountains of trees. The tour finished on a very nice note, a glass of scotch or pisco sour with some spectacular glacial ice fresh from the lake. (Aidan wants to bag and sell the ice). We bought all of our camping gear in Ecuador and were a little worried about the quality withstanding the harsh conditions of rain, snow and wind but it proved us wrong and kept us dry and relatively warm. The hike was spectacular we experienced the infamous Patagonian winds ripping through the landscape on our first night, brilliant blue skies the next day to enjoy the glacier, snow the next day as we hiked up through the Valley of Frances and a brilliant sunny day to see the 'Torres', rock formations that look like towers. Then on our last day it drizzled with a little rain but that didn't worry us because we no longer needed a dry tent, we only had to walk one hour to reach our final destination where the bus picked us up and we had had an amazing 5 days in the park.