Once you start walking why stop I guess! Despite having walked quite a long way on the glacier after the 3 hour bus ride to El Chalten it was clear that the only thing to do here was to walk, so I set off on a 6 hour hike up to Laguna Torres and back. The weather again was fairly average, but luckily there wasn't much in the way of rain, just some snow and a lot of cloud. This meant lots of peering into the clouds and keeping fingers crossed that the clouds would...

There's nothing like giving your body a shock every now and then, a bit like rolling in the snow after having a sauna. Arriving in El Chalten from Buenos Aires was a bit like that - a constant 25 degrees or so down to about 5, a few million people down to about 5, that kind of thing!The 3 hour flight down was fabulous - completely clear skies to give a view of the whole of Argentina spread out below me and what looked like barely any signs of development, just co...

Hola de Buenos Aires!Having Saturday 26 March is not to be recommended, I felt completely dead on arrival in BA! Instead of sleeping on the plane I watched movies: The King's Speech; The Girl who Played with Fire; The Social Network; and Love and Other Drugs. All really good and totally different. Other entertainment was provided by the two Aussie guys sitting next to me (Jarrod and Lachy) spilling drinks everywhere and managing not to get cut off by the very old...