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673-04 Grey Glacier - Chile. [October 12:08] We had planed
many times with my wife to visit Torres del Paine, one of the most beautiful
parks in Chile. Due to its proximity to the southern pole, the weather is
very difficult to predict, besides I had received all sorts of recommendations
on when to go, from September to August..... Reviewing AcuWaeather I saw
in the satellite map that a cold front was about to hit the south of the
continent, I gambled that after it we would have good weather. I was right;
we had one entire week of clear skies. On the trip to the glacier, through
the Grey Lake, I found a group that was going to trek trough the glacier.
In this opportunity one of the founders of Big Foot, the operator who makes
these trips, made sure I went to every cave and place where I could take
the photographs. In this photographs I'm in the middle of a hole, with my
legs wide open pressing the crampons against the ice walls not to fall,
with one hand holding the tripod that danced over the ice (it had rubber
foots), and with the other hand, changing rolls and lenses. Although I do
not put names to my photographs, just a number, place, month and hour; I
baptized this one as "The Tear". The technician of the Lambda
machine (where I do my c-prints), had a hard time trying to match the blue
color of the original slide. |
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Gonzalo Contreras del Solar 
