Its
been 4 months since we left our home in Puerto Natales. Yesterday morning we
arrived on a windy and snowy day. Upon arriving the sun came through and cast
the most beautiful light upon our beloved little town on the shores of the
Señoret Sound surrounded by the mountains all clad in white. What a wonderful feeling!
The
3 months in Denmark has been very productive and fortunate. I was able to carry
out the first step of the 3-step promoting-plan I have developed to present
Scandinavia to the travel destination and to the new tour operator and partner
in Patagonia, DEFY Patagonia.
Now
back in Patagonia it is time to set in motion the second step of the plan which
is carrying out extreme expeditions in my region in Chile. I am training very
hard to recover and get ready to set out within 2 weeks on the first expedition
to Torres del Paine.
Red pin: 1 expedition - Torres del Paine
Yellow pin: 2 expedition - Canal de las Montañas
Green pin: 3 expedition - Isla Navarino
I have succeeded
in obtaining 3 sponsors to equip me with everything I need to carry out the
expeditions called “Challenge Patagonia 2012”, to work as a trekking guide throughout
the season and to go and play when I am not working. Haglöfs has sponsored every layer of technical clothing, sleeping
bag and a variety of boots, rug sacks and dry sacks, SpejderGEAR has provided me with tents from Helsport and a GPS and
the Danish importer STM Sport provided
me with a weather station, head-lamp, compass and binocular from SILVA, a solar-light charger from PowerTraveller, drinking systems from Camelbak, Showel from Gerber , socks from Lorpen ,1. Aid kit, sunscreen, towels
and sleeping bag-inlet from TravelSafety,
hiking poles from Masters, storm
stoves, pots, ETAsolo, bottles to carry gas and thermos from PRIMUS, a pair of gaiters from VAUDE and finally a pair of sunglasses
from. I myself have bought an ice ax, a good and light self-inflating mattress and a new camara
- CANON PS SX 230HS – to be able to take good fotos to send back to Scandinavia.
I am still looking for a radio and a satellite telephone that is a definate must to carry out the second expedition.
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