Grey Glacier — Attraction in Torres del Paine

19 years ago I made my first trip to Torres del Paine, where I visited the Grey Lake and glacier. We took at that time the very small boat named Grey I, in the trip the wind was so strong that it collided with the front windshield, forming curious designes that I was able to register on film.

While I was taking pictures of the colliding water, I noticed that a group of people were filling release forms, I asked if we all had to fill and sign them. They were only for the group that would go out walking on the glacier. A few minutes later I was signing the release forms. My guide helped me descend throughout a Moulin, a large hole formed in the glacier, this is due to a small rock that absorbe the sun light, slowly melting the ice, making through many years a hole large enough for me to descend with camera and tripod.

In 2013 I would return with my daughter to hike again on the glacier, we took the Grey II boat that left us on a camp close to the glacier, learning on our arrival that the glacier hiking was canceled do to malfunctions of the Zodiac that took you to the side of the glacier where the adventure started.

This week I returned with my son, having both the goal to walk over the ice, but due to Covid, the number of trips per day that the Grey III boat were limited, so you could not take the early boat towards the glacier and return on the 4th trip that was late enough to allow us to trek over the ice for a couple of hours.

However we were able to take a kayak tour that went towards where the floating icebergs were located, took my camera on a dry bag, carefully opening to take pictures and putting it away, assuring not to lose it. The lake is deep, and even if you would be close to the shore, the water is tainted gray due to the lime that glacier pulverize as it descends, you cannot see anything beyond a meter. This gray color gives the name to the lake and glacier "Grey".

During my first visit in 2002, the glacier was divided into 2 tongues, sadly this year there are 3 tongues, each very small compared to what I saw, the entire section where I walked has vanished, based on the image GPS data of then and now, more two kilometers have...

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