Patagonia Part III

It was our last day on this gorgeous continent...and we hiked on a glacier. It far exceeded my expectations. After strapping homemade crampons to our boots, we hiked over an hour across pure ice. It wasn't flat or smooth, the path was over jagged spikes of compacted snow. It wasn't so much the surrounding scenery that captivated me, but the deep cerulean pockets of water caught in the ice. Every so often, our path would lead us to bright blue cauldrons of crystal clear water or over small sharp canyons of dark purple. And if that weren't enough, at the end of the trek, we received a final gift: a glass filled with glacier ice and a shot of irish whiskey. What an extraordinary exit. 

- K