Patagonia · End of the Earth

Torres del Paine is weather made visible — four seasons in an afternoon, wind that knocks you flat, and light that detonates on the granite at dawn. This is wilderness at its most uncompromising and its most beautiful, where the Andes finally break apart into the southern ocean.

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  Laguna Amarga Plains◆ hidden
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  Base de las TorresA glacial tarn beneath the three granite towers, the climax of the day-long base trek.
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  Cuernos & Lago PehoéThe horned peaks of the Cuernos rising over the impossibly turquoise Lago Pehoé.
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  Salto Grande◆ hidden
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  Grey Glacier◆ hidden