Torres Del Paine - Chile

I decided to take on the W circuit (as the full circuit had been closed in the last week secondary to terrible weather: snowfall was now blocking several areas of the tracks). It was easy enough to find other gringos after the same thing, so soon enough there was a group of 5 of us who would walk together:

Hiroki (AKA Sensai Yamada, Rocky): An architect from Tokyo - ´Really!´

Susan: The pink power ranger, soon to be law student from LA

Gordon: The German Hotel worker, who forgot his own birthday, and only realised when he had to write down the date... `and i was all like WHAAAATTTT?`

Felipe: The Comedic Brazilian Medico (Who worked in what area? Oncology of course)

And of course.. ME!
So we set out on this 5day trek to complete the W,

HIGHLIGHTS: First day was Glacier Grey, miserable weather had me worried, rain rain and more rain, but this cleared upon are arrival at the glacier

Walking up Valley Frances Covered in snow, amazing views of the surrounding national park

Mice: They’re everywhere!! You must hang all your food in trees otherwise they knaw their way into your tent! They ate my noodles... and my nuts... thought not much of it... until i started to find mice droppings mixed in with my nuts... i stopped eating them after that. But i was lucky - met an irish bloke who ended up with a hole in his tent and jacket pocket… all because of a single peanut! OUCH! chica chic ahhhh, thats gotta hurt

Torres del paine:
The ideal time to see the towers is at sunrise, meaning a 6am start, however our good mate rocky had different plans... waking us up at 2:15 to start walking to the ´torres´… his body clock had told him it was time… then his watch had told him so… turned out to actually be Tokyo time in the end… so after gettin dressed and out of our sleeping bags... we went back to sleep for another 3 hours - Wooooooo. However we finally did climb to the mirador (lookout) at 6am in the morning to see the sunrise upon the towering blue granite spires… which are so steep.. snow wont even settle on them, check it out, it`s electric!

So we completed the W in good time, we were very lucky with the weather.. as we only had one day with rain, the week before had taken the brunt of the weather.