Patagonia&South AmericaWilly 05 Mar 2007 09:10 am
Day hike on the Grey Glacier in Nacional Park Torres del Paine, Chile
Click here to view the day hike displayed on Google Maps. I recommend changing the view to either Satellite or Hybrid to see the underlying terrain. (Does anyone know how to include the view type as a parameter in the URL?)
If you have Google Earth installed (download here) you can also view the data by clicking here – View in Google Earth.
Hopefully Chuck will provide more data soon.
Willy
March 6th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Sounds like a great ice trek! Note: the part on the right side over the ice probably wasn’t trekking, it was pure boat ride. The right side of the glacier is dropping off at about a km every year or two. The left side is much more stable, and the trek path on ice there should be correct. Pretty cool how you can track your path with GPS!
March 8th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Willy-
Thanks for getting this posted. I assume this is from Chuck’s GPS heart rate monitor.
Anyway, for another perspective on this hike go to the NY Times Travel section for Sunday March 4. The cover story is about hiking in Torres del Paine. It has some good photo’s and a great story that adds more context to Chuck’s adventure.
March 8th, 2007 at 4:38 am
This is the web link to the NYTimes article on hiking in Torres Del Paine
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/travel/04patagonia.html?pagewanted=1