From the bottom of the world (almost)

Hello!

We´re now in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world. It´s a very touristy city, many cruise ships and ships to Antarctica land here. But the scenery is very nice and we´re planning to check it out in a a couple overnight hikes in the next week. We were originally planning on a big hike in a very remote area, but we´ve heard that there´s a good amount of snow that obscures the trail even though it is the beginning of summer.
Before we got here we hiked the Fitz Roy area and saw two of mountaineering´s greatest challenges, Cerro Torro and Fitz Roy. It was pleasant hiking, we had decent weather but it cloudy at times so we did not actually see the top of Cerro Torre. But it was a good 3 day hike through a nice area. Tourism is really starting to boom in this area, which can be slightly annoying as everything was very overpriced.
After a total of 28 hours of buses (not all at one time) we made it to Ushuaia from Fitz Roy. 5 of those hours were spent waiting in a bus to cross a ferry, and the winds were too bad for the bus to cross. But we finally made it. Down here the weather is quite unpredictable. Yesterday we went for a short hike up to a glacier just outside of town. The day started nicely, but once we made our way up to the top via a muddy, snowy trail it was cold, windy and snowing. We were so cold that we did not walk the final 300 yards to the glacier as it did not look as interesting as the ones we have seen recently.
So we are going to go on a couple overnight trips in the Tierra del Fuego park before flying to Buenos Aires on the 17th. Well be there and in Uruguay until the 27th when we fly to Colombia. We´ll be meeting up with our friend Dan for the last part of the trip as well.

New pics are up under pictures 2. Hope everyone is doing well!

Jess