Category: Chile

International travel, expeditions, hiking and trekking exploits to Chile.

  • Circuit O Torres Del Paine, Chile – 2025

    Circuit O Torres Del Paine, Chile – 2025

    Torres Del Paine is a 1800 Sq KM (700 Sq Miles) National Park in Southern Chile. It is approximately 51Deg South which is the same latitude as Vancouver and Cornwall. Just the other side of the equator. The winter and summer temperatures are colder than the corresponding latitude in the northern hemisphere. However the difference…

  • Return to El Calafate & El Chalten – Argentina 2016

    Return to El Calafate & El Chalten – Argentina 2016

    Robel Sur was a welcome sight after a long and tiring 32 hour journey to El Calafate. This was my second visit to El Calafate and El Chalten and my third to Argentina. A few more houses have been built in the area but we still received the same warm welcome. I do not think…

  • Parque Nacional Torres del Paine – Chile

    Parque Nacional Torres del Paine – Chile

    I removed my pack from the bus and asked the driver where the Refugio Torres was. He replied that this bus did not go there and we should have changed to the shuttle bus at the entrance to the park. That was 12 km back! We had to wait there and be picked up on…

  • El Calafate & El Chalten – Argentina 2010

    El Calafate & El Chalten – Argentina 2010

    I have always wanted to return to Argentina after staying in Ushuaia on my return from Antarctica, and not just for the fine Red wine! The opportunity came in December 2009 when I met my cousin, also William Burton, in Miami and we travelled to Calafate via Buenos Aries. With both of us having the…