With the payment made for our flights over to Chile the expedition is confirmed. We will leave Australia on the 15th June and reach the small town of Coyhaique on the 21st. For five days we will do a trip with the Patagonia Mountaineering School to the Cerro Castillo National Park and refresh our skills in glacier travel, crevasse rescue, snow shelters and more.
After a few days of packing and sorting, visiting local authorities to get permits and doing other organising we will then be ready to go. We are aiming to drive to the tiny town of Tortel on the 30th June, after which we will get a small boat that will take us to the bottom of the Jorge Montt Glacier and the start of our trip.
We have 3 weeks to climb the glacier, travel along the icecap and descend the other side.
- and from today we have 6 weeks to get ready.
