Today is my last whole day in Chalten and I would really like to do the hike to the Torre (3-9 hours) but waking up to the strong winds was once again off-puting. The sun was out but the wind was blowing from the West again so this morning is looking like no possibility of trekking. I walked down to a travel agency and asked them for today's forecast which luckily is looking better for the afternoon with the clouds clearing and the wind easing. I ran into my host...

Today I was up early ready for our hike to Cerro Torre - unfortunately as the weather had predicted the weather was overcast and the wind was bending the trees over. Hernan stumbled out of bed later and wanted to go anyway but I decided I would wait until later as the whole purpose of the hike is to enjoy the trek and see the tower - neither of which will happen in these conditions. I think he was a little pissed off at me for not wanting to go in the bad conditi...

Today the weather has cracked up with a lot of wind and clouds so a bit of a relaxing day today and hopefully trekking tommorrow. I managed to get a little bit of Internet at a cafe and then went to visit Matilde at her work where we chatted and she showed me around her lodge. I then made my way back to the house for a late lunch and played some cards with Hernan. I learned a very typical Argentinian card game called Truca (translation - Tricks), it was quite dif...

Today the first thing I had to do was find some internet. I went for a walk around the town and soon discovered that everywhere you had to pay and that wifi was not working anywhere. I found a little shop selling pay Internet on computers which looked to be the best deal so I went back to the house and got Hernan so he could also use. The Internet at the shop was incredibly slow but it worked well enough to check a few emails and send a few Facebook messages. The...

Today everyone was very slow getting up due to the fact we didn't get up home until 4:30am. As everyone in the house climbs today they had all planned to go climbing - the problem being we had to wait for everyone to get up and get organized. It was almost 2pm when everyone was finally ready but I was really excited to be going climbing, specially since they are all professional level climbers. The walk out to the cliffs and rock climbing walls was only about 20 ...