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Chile’s glaciers are dying. You can actually hear it.
22.08.2023 - 12:09 / nationalgeographic.com
“I am the guardian of the glacier,” says Andrea Carretta. He does not mean this as a boast but rather a simple acknowledgment of service. The 46-year-old park ranger slowly lowers himself until he is on one knee. In quiet tones he asks the glacier for permission to lead us onto the secluded ice.
We’re at the approach to the Exploradores Glacier, situated in southern Chile’s Laguna San Rafael National Park. It’s early September, a season of less rain and fewer tourists. Swollen gray clouds loom over us as the dense forest recedes. We strap crampons onto our hiking boots and crunch our way through a terrain of slick morainal sediment that suddenly cascades into a swirling panorama of pale blue ice massifs and minty glacial waterways. The primordial might of Exploradores must be respected, even by someone like Carretta who visits the glacier on foot daily, often spending evenings at its edge in a firelit cabin bedroom where he dines on canned food. As a new visitor, I find the glacier beautiful but also terrifying, as with any indomitable force.
It’s a bit jolting, then, to hear Carretta say, “The glacier is dying.” The words are both tender and factual. Born in the Italian Alps, an accomplished but wayward mountain climber, Carretta found his paradise in Patagonia in 2016. He relocated to Chile with his wife and son, who accept how his heart is divided. “I know the glacier loves me,” he says.
(This thrilling Chilean trek is the world’s southernmost hike.)
Today it is his lot to measure with sensors the steady recession of the glacier, about a yard every year. It’s there for Carretta to see. Where there was ice, now there are ponds. There is no mystery here. The melting of Patagonia’s glaciers coincides with rising temperatures that, in turn, correlate with the past half century’s acceleration of carbon emissions.
“The tourists who come here for a beautiful photo, I say to them, ‘Take your photo, and then come back in five years and take another, so that you can see the difference the way I see it,’ ” he says. “Maybe there’s hope. Or maybe the Earth will just punish us.”
As world-famous as Chilean Patagonia is, though, its extravagance lies in its lack of polish. Here nature—hushed, magisterial—is luxury enough. The region’s 775-mile north-south byway, the Carretera Austral, winds through the snow-draped Andean mountain chain and pastures, betraying only the vaguest evidence of human habitation, such as the odd cowboy on horseback flanked by his tribe of cattle dogs. With the exception of urban Coyhaique, the towns of Chilean Patagonia do not stray from the territory’s rough-hewn ethos. Its people are synchronized with the land rather than with greater civilization. The common adage here is, “He who
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