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jul 23 2011 Monte Darwin: El Desquite Shipton

For: Gerardo Bartolomé (text and photos)

Shipton fell into a deep depression over losing the mountain to which he had prepared all his life: el Everest. He decided to be the person who had conquered mountains, the largest number 1 history. There were many virgin peaks in the northern hemisphere, so we laid eyes on the ice fields between Argentina and Chile. There were dozens of unexplored mountains.

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jul 17 2011 The Everest climber overcome by

For: Gerardo Bartolomé

He dreamed, like so many other climbers of the time, to become the first man to tread the summit of Everest, but the glory was elusive. Sorry, heart rumbo a la Patagonia. Other peaks waiting to be conquered virgin. What is the name of the British explorer and mountaineer image? What feats he starred in southern lands? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome will tell the story in next week VaP..

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jul 09 2011 Santa Cruz River: the wake of Fitz Roy

For: Gerardo Bartolomé (text and photos)

Río Santa Cruz: tras la estela de Fitz Roy

"A row which is the curve!”, I shouted to my comrades and eagerly returned to take the boat to the middle of the river. "How much we?"I asked one of them. I surprised GPS, separated us only ten minutes by boat from the enigmatic Basalt Glen Fitz Roy.

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jul 06 2011 “Patagonia a sanfre Fria”, Gerardo Bartolomé

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“Patagonia a sanfre fría”, Gerardo Bartolomé

Sentence: "Patagonia can surprise you at any time"

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jul 03 2011 The river of deception
For: Gerardo Bartolomé

Where in Southern Patagonia was beached the boat of an old engraving? What intrepid sailor took advantage of this estuary to repair your boat and, passing, explore the river in search of an Andean lake that never saw? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome made the same route. He did manage to see the lake. I will in a week in VaP..

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jun 25 2011 The bird island and killing of the Spanish
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La isla de los pájaros y la matanza de los españoles

He ended the day and ended our visit to the Peninsula Valdes. Before we left we decided to stop in front of the Bird Island to catch the last rays of sun and take pictures of the chapel there remembers an old Spanish settlement. By Gerardo BARTHOLOMEW.

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jun 19 2011 The chapel stained with blood
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What reminds this old Spanish settlement lonely chapel? These walls evoke a meeting, or collision, between the old and new worlds in a remote colonial settlement. Now become prime tourist destination, the place holds a story of survival that we will have next weekend VaP. writer and collaborator on his blog Gerardo Bartolomé "From Patagonia".