Exploradores Glacier & Villa O'Higgins, Carretera Austral in Chile (Patagonia Expedition #04)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In the 4th episode of the Patagonia Expedition we are going to ice hike on the Exploradores Glacier in the Laguna San Rafael National Park before we continue our way down to the end of the Carretera Austral in Villa O’Higgins.
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The Carretera Austral is a 1200km long road in the south of Chile which connects the most remote areas of the country. The ruta 7 is a paradise for adventure seekers as it is a mostly unpaved road which brings you to the lesser known parts of Patagonia in the stunning Los Lagos and Aysen Region.
Our plan was to get from Puerto Montt till Villa O’Higgins by thumb to get in touch with locals and fellow adventurers along the way. After making our way down from Puerto Montt to Puerto Rio Tranquilo in the last episodes we decided to stay in one place for a few days to be able to do more activities. In the last previous episode we finished with the visit of the Marble Caves, in this episode we went on a full day „big ice“ excursion at the Glaciar Exploradores.
The Exploradores Glacier is situated on the northeastern slope of Monte San Valentín inside the Laguna San Rafael National Park and is a part of the Northern Patagonian Icefield. This ice field is the smaller of two remnant parts in which the Patagonian Ice Sheet in the Andes Mountains of lower South America can be divided.
Nowadays it is completely contained within the boundaries of Laguna San Rafael National Park. Once the Patagonian Ice Sheet was an extensive ice sheet that covered all of Chilean Patagonia and the westernmost parts of Argentine Patagonia during the Quaternary glaciations. Today, with its glaciers largely in retreat and only an area of 4,200 km2 (1,600 sq mi), the northern patagonian ice field is still the second largest continuous mass of ice outside of the polar regions.
This part of the trip was executed within 1week by using altogether 3 public buses and one ferry - following I list all the places we visited & Things to do at the Carretera Austral:
Exploradores Glacier / Laguna San Rafael National Park
Northern Patagonian Ice Field
Cochrane & Rio Baker
Villa O'Higgins
Cerro Altavista
Puerto Rio Tranquilo
Marble Caves / Capillas de Marmol
Lago General Carrera
I'm excited to share all our experiences in Patagonia over the course of the next 6 weeks with you. In the next episode we will do a boat excursion to the impressive O’Higgins glacier, cross into Argentina on foot and meet impressive characters along the way.
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That lady that owned the Mosco hostel, Wow! You could see her eyes getting bigger and brighter as she spoke of her life and her job! It's wonderful, inspiring even! She seems like a very sweet person too
Yes, Fili definitely is a very warm hearted, lovely person and you can tell she loves Patagonia. When you are in Villa O'Higgins one day she is the best resource in town to ask!
Gracias por mostrar las bellezas de nuestro país
Gracias Steve por reflejar tan bien el espíritu de acogida de nuestra Fili en El Mosco.
You´ve made a great job!!! Congratulations!!!
Gracias Manuel - la Hosteria q tienes esta una de las mejores en Patagonia. Estuve aca en 2013 y ahora en este ano. Voy a volver seguro..la proxima vez con mas tiempo :)
Those glaciers are stunning. Cant believe how blue the water is :) !!
Yes - the colors where "live" even more intense, incredible nature!
Insane quality. I keep seeing more and more vlogs on Iceland and it has convinced me to go! You capture the beauty of the country well!
Glaciers are awesome in Iceland too - but this is in Chile, South America ;)
Derp, I guess I've had my mind on Iceland for too long!!
I'm so glad I subscribed to this channel. You have some of the best travel vlogs I've seen. Keep them coming! Cheers from Colombia
Beautiful Chile 👏👏👏
Chile is one of the most beautiful countries in the world!
gracias por el video Chile es maravilloso
I wish going to Antartica was cheaper and a bit closer so that you and your girl could do it soon, it'd be so fun to see!
siempre veo tus vídeos espectaculares paisajes saludos
Muchas Gracias - este parte de Chile es increible!
Gracias por el esfuerzo de hacer los videos! son espectaculares, y muy útiles para ahora que voy en camino para allá!
Gracias - buen viaje, amigo!
The quality of the video its so amazing!
que lindo es mi chile
I imagine that their is a transportation services from end of Carter’s austral to villa O Higgins? Wife and I will trek but starting from el chalten into Chile
omg u were in Chile on my birthday!
Das ist ja der Mega-Hammer!!!! 😃👍👍👍
¡¡Wonderful!!!😄😄😊😊💖💖💖💖💖💖
welcome to chile....
Can you explain more about how you visited the glaciers in the beginning of the video? Was it with a tour group or something?
It was with a tour I booked in Pto. Rio Tranquilo with Explorasur
What part of the carretera austral would u say is the best north or south part?
en enero de 2017, saldremos con unos amigos a la carretera austral en una hiunday H1, esperamos llegar a villa ohiggins
espero que me lleven cuando haga dedo jajaj
🇨🇱🇬🇧😊✌️
the dog is amazing!
Excelentes videos Steve, de casualidad tienes algun link con el must to do tengo diez días para hacerla arrendaré un auto con amigos, que cosas no me puedo perder?
Hola Florian - el ultimo video en mi canal tiene todo q te quieres :)
Gracias compadre!
Hello ! Can you tell us how difficult it was to travel with/use the drone? Did you encounter any difficulties with the local regulations? Thanks !
Please check out the info box under my latest video where I wrote about drone regulations in Patagonia ;)
Great!!!!!!
De nuevo qué tiene que ver El Chalten aquí...aquí conocemos Chaitén...
Hi there, have the mail of the mosco hostel ?
qUE TOUR es ¿? cuanto dinero cuesta ¿?
Hi Steve, I really enjoy your videos! I was wondering which camera you're using?
Thanks! All cameras are mentioned in the info box ;)
I have seen that you used drone videos for this clip. Did you need a special permit for it ?
When this video was filmed there were no restrictions - this has changed on most of the national parks in Patagonia due to the increase of Drone usage by operators who didn't take much care of nature or other people :/
Nice trip
What camera do you use?
Si el recorrido es por Chile por qué razón marcas a Argentina...na´que ver
Saludos desde #puertoriotranquilo
en una parte de la Patagonia están ofreciendo terrenos para vivir
Do you use drone?
Beautiful places, many of them amazing. (but i prefer not to have subtitles in English, because, they cover, many of the images, which are the STAR in this kind of videos. Anyway, thanks!
+ormuz ariman well, it seems like you activated subtitles yourself - you can simply turn them off!
Ообшум молодес тебе да