I heard an expression today that describes the Patagonian weather: “if you don’t like it, wait for 20 minutes”. This is also by far the windiest place I’ve ever experienced. Our tent is pretty well sheltered luckily, you can hear the wind in the trees, but the pegs have stayed in the ground so far. The wind also prevents the snoring sound of certain team members from reaching our tent.
Today I talked to Marco from Puerto Natales (a small town not so far from here), who has worked in the area for nine years. He has since then seen great changes in the icefield, and they had to change the route for the trek and climb up on the Grey from the other side.