Trip
The Carretera Austral, End to End
1,240 kilometres of gravel, ferries and rain from Puerto Montt to the last village before the ice cap. Three weeks, one spare tyre used.
6 January 2024 – 27 January 2024 · 5 stories
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769.3 km10 located photos5 stops
Villa O'Higgins, Aysén
Villa O'Higgins, and Then Nothing
The road stops at a village of 600 people because the third-largest body of ice on Earth is in the way.
25 January 2024
Puerto Río Tranquilo, Aysén
Six Thousand Years of Water Sanding a Wall
A boat, a headland of marble, and light coming up through the lake into the caves.
19 January 2024
Cerro Castillo, Aysén
Over Cerro Castillo
Up through beech forest to a lagoon the colour of antifreeze, with the wind doing its best to send us back.
16 January 2024
Puyuhuapi, Aysén
The Glacier That Hangs
Rain for two days, then a window, and a sheet of ice sitting in a notch 400 metres up.
12 January 2024
Hornopirén, Los Lagos
Kilometre Zero
A road that is thirty percent ferry, and nobody warns you in that order.
7 January 2024