Today I take a day of rest as I have to repack everthing I left behind in one of Omar's lockers while going on the trek; quite a messy locker it is. I manage to get everything in my backpack - after having decided to post some things home again - and arrange a bus to El Calafate for the next morning. The rest of the day I spend chatting to the people in the hostel - who are waiting to board the Navimag ferry- and in the evening - yet again - we meet up with some...

We wake up at 6h00 and by 6h50 we are leaving for our climb up to the Torres where we will hopefully be lucky and have a bit of a nice sunrise. The trek is not an easy one, even more because it is still dark outside. A clear sky and lots of stars give us hope though and we continue our road up. We arrive around 7h50 and are the first ones to see the ultimate goal of our 5-day trek from close by. The torres are surrounded by a layer of mist but are visible at leas...

Day 4 of our Trekking is supposed to be the heaviest. Checking our map we see that the expected walking time is one of around 8 hours, carrying our backpacks all along. After the mentioned night of heavy storm and rain and our tents and sleeping bags being clompletely soaked, it is very hard to leave the warm and cosy refugio Cuernos, back into another rainy day. But of course there is no way out but the long one. We as such start hiking around 10h15 with a bag ...

Today we are slightly more efficient and manage to leave the camp around 10h00. Much against everyone's advice - as Valle del Francés would not really be worth visiting if the weather is completely overcast (which it is) - we still decide to hike our way up to the top. Weren't we told that the weather in Patagonia can change drastically in less than half an hour? Yes we were! We definitely took the right decision as we have a nice and clear view over the valle...

Not a very good night so we stay in the tent a bit longer and go for a paid coffee in the Refugio after first walking up to the viewpoint of Glaciar Grey. While enjoying our hot coffee, it starts to pour down with rain and both Zsuzsa and I consider it best to wait a little bit longer - even if we are quite late to start today's trek already. In the end we only leave the camp around 11h30, but at least the weather has improved slightly and we can walk a bit faste...