Sudamérica

Lunchin with our Israeli friends.














Frosted tips.













Razor Ridge (named by us)













Everything about this picture is hard, hard rocks, hard hike, and hard-core.












Glacier, too be continued....











Glacier continued, many kilometers away.
The end.














Torres del Paine at sunrise.












Us, miladón, Wes, cave, rail.














Miladón Cave (a miladón is an ancient giant bear/horse/sloth that has only been found in this region)











City of the dead. La Recoleta.




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After Perito Moreno we continued our journey to Puerto Natales, Chile, where we embarked on an eight day trek around Torres Del Paine. It rained, there was sunshine, crazy wind, but a good time, and we were ready to get back to Puerto Natales.

After Puerto Natales we took a bus to Rio Gallegos, then to Puerto Madryn, then to Buenos Aires. Every attempt to go out at night has failed miserably, but we did get conned by the Tango Dancers. We did a lot of walking and Scott is really figuring out the subway and the bus system here.

Tomorrow we are going to a world cup preliminary qualifying game for the world cup. Argentina vs. Venezuela. Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona is coaching, and superstar soccer player Messi will be there. It will be rockin. There was a line for 5 blocks to buy tickets today.

¡¡¡¡check check chau!!!!

We got high in Iquique, Chile........paragliding

First shot at Fitz Roy, the crazy wind has taken its toll on our faces, our good looks are ¨gone with the wind.¨

Strange clouds, big mountain, cool shadow, ice.

We jumped out of a helicopter for this picture (pretty gnarly, right??)

Fitz Roy skyline. mmmmm.

Scott, little man in a big world.

Ice, Ice baby, duh duh duh duhduhduh dun.

Perito Moreno Glacier + Rainbow= Awesome

The big chunk of crystal blue ice came from underneath the glacier, it was like an island coming out from the water. The video, coming to you on April 23 (when we get home).

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We have now traveled on a bus for more than 108 hours, in 2 1/2 weeks. We are currently in El Calafate, Argentina, but we are going to Puerto Natales, Chile, tomorrow morning. We took a detour on our way to El Calafate and stopped in El Chalten, where we went to Fitz Roy.

Fitz Roy is a sweet stone spire that jets vertically into the sky. We had a base camp and did day hikes to several different glaciers and glacial lakes. Water was cold and drinkable without purification. They called it Agua Leche, or milky water, it was good.

After El Chalten, we made our way to El Calafate, we met 3 Israelis and rented a car to go out to the Perito Moreno Glacier, it was cheaper to rent a car than to take a bus.

Our next adventure is a 7 day trek around Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia to see more glaciers.

We love you all.

Quick update for everyone!

I would put pics up but this computer sucks and won´t let me upload them.

We are in Bariloche, Argentina but are heading down to El Calafate, Argentina. We are finally in the Patagonia region so we are happy to be out of the city.
We stayed in Santiago, Chile for about a week with Gabriel, one of Tyler´s companions from the mission, they showed us around Santiago, took us to the beach, and his mom cooked us some awesome Chilean food.
We are trying to get further south as fast as we can, because that is where most of our trekking will be done.

Sorry no pics, hopefully next time.
Chau

We found a pretty cheap hostel in Miraflores, Peru, but we are headed to Arequipa today to climb a volcano if its not too rainy. Things are good, but we are all pretty sunburnt. The bus ride to Arequipa is about 17 hours, but the bus we are going in is pretty nice.

Miraflores has a lot of surfers, and the hostel we are staying in has a lot of foreigners; German, Swiss, Nepali, Dutch, and Argentine. The beach here is pretty, but its really rocky, so its good for surfing, but not for swimming, we might take some surfing lessons on our way back to Lima.

We´ll get some pictures up next time. Hopefully our hostel in Arequipa has internet.

Adios.