thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 8月12日 11時14分

Photo by Michael George @migeophoto // Torres del Paine is the rare park where humans are the outsiders in a vast, legitimate wilderness. Though it occupies 930 square miles, the park receives only 2,000 visitors per day in peak season. This might be because it takes as many as two planes and a five-hour drive to arrive at one of the park’s only four hotels. By the time I dropped my bags in my room, I had been traveling for 48 hours. There was little time to relax. We went out to meet Geraldinne, a native Patagonian who would be our guide throughout the week. Geraldinne spends her days running horses through the valley and hiking 20 miles as if it were a walk in the park. Within twenty minutes of arriving we set out for a hike to Lake Sarmiento. The trail we chose curved downward, and every five minutes we fell into a new biome. There were bones everywhere. First a skull, then vertebrae with hardened skin, and suddenly an entire carcass. Geraldinne explained, “The life of the guanaco is to eat and run from the puma.” Many of these guanaco were not fast enough, and neither were we. Our group made up of photographers and videographers moved slowly. As dusk settled in we were two hours behind schedule. We arrived by the lake in what looked like a land-based coral reef and Geraldinne suggested we head back, “It is puma hour. I don’t like puma hour.” She recalled that a man was mauled and killed by one of the large cats not long ago. “Where?” I asked, expecting her to describe somewhere far away. “Over there,” she said, pointing to a rock about 100 feet from where we stood. Moments later we heard a deep rumbling as a white cloud rose from the mountains in the distance. Torres del Paine is an avalanche behind you, a condor in the sky, bones in the grass, and pumas somewhere, everywhere, always watching from afar. // #patagoniaculture #ActonClimate #ClimateChange #TorresdelPaine #Patagonia #Chile #Globalwarming

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