So it's a beautiful morning here in Patagonia. I'm in Torres del Paine National Park.
We're gonna be hiking towards Torres Del Paine viewpoint today. I'm hiking with Jill
jJG and Joe this morning. so it should be a pretty fun and epic! In order to
hike Torres del Paine National Park, you have to register so they know you're in the park.
It cost twenty one thousand pesos or about thirty dollars to hike in Torres del Paine National Park.
That's for a three-day pass. After the Welcome Center you have
about an hour and a half drive until you get to the viewpoint trekking location. The
views on this drive are amazing. I have to caution you about the roads what
are the biggest mistakes we made was not getting the right vehicle for this drive
there's a lot of potholes a lot of gravel roads make sure you get a car
that's equipped to drive on those kind of roads. We're actually trekking Torres del Paine National Park
today. At Torres del Paine National Park t you have to be here by 11 a.m. local
time or they won't let you on to the trail. We're here at like 10:50 like we
barely made so if you're ill prepared like we were you can buy snacks here but
they're pretty expensive so pry bring your own snacks so the beginning of this
hike is a little misleading it's a nice carved out path there's a swanky hotel
at the base of the mountain and there's even a little grocery store but don't
let that fool you this hike is very challenging and you'll see what I mean a
little later alright so the view point hike is ten point six miles it's a there
and back hike so five miles in five miles back
the guides say that it can take between six and eight hours to hike this hike so
just like my hike to a rainbow mountain there's actually a trail specifically
designated for horses so if you're worried about the strenuous nature of
this hike you can take a horse however the horse will only take you to
the base camp area and you'll still have four kilometers to hike which is the
most difficult so far this hike has been straight up it
just might be harder than much feature I'm pretty sure what you think jail
harder than Machu Picchu kg it's gorgeous down Joe this is easy for you I
figure train while the trail is pretty safe in most areas there are a couple
spots where you should exercise a little caution so most of the hike is pretty
safe but there are places where there are big drop-offs so you want to make
sure if you're doing that Instagram shot or that selfie you don't back yourself
down that ravine there after about two hours of hiking we arrived at the base
camp area so halfway through the hike they have a base camp area where you can
get something to eat sit down relax before you continue on through the rest
of the hike so it's pretty cool if you want to hike to this point and then camp
they actually have these tents on these platforms which are pretty cool it's
kind of bougie but bougie in a good way this is max he found my phone on the
trail and it was nice enough to retrieve it and give it back to me that's there
are good people in the world so we're hiking to the base around there these
things there's supposed to be some kind of like link there which should be
pretty cool so from the base camp you have about four kilometers before you
get to the viewpoint what's so great about this hike is that the scenery
changes so drastically one minute you're hiking up mountainous
terrain like a billy goat and the next minute you're in this like beautiful
enchanted forest if I filmed every epic waterfall and bridge crossing here that
is all you would see
whoo so we just climbed up a pretty big hill we just saw a sign that said we had
1.2 kilometers left so hopefully we'll be there soon because I'm dying so we
thought we had about 20 minutes left we just passed this other group and they
told us we have an hour I'm hoping they're just screwing with us we don't
really have an hour left but you're gonna suffer
might as well suffer we're gonna death so they weren't messing with us we
actually still had about an hour left to hike and I'm not gonna lie to you it was
pretty tough but eventually we made it to the VuPoint spot totally totally
worth it how does it feel yeah to be at this beautiful place feel alive yeah I
had mentioned at Machu Picchu how inspiring it was and that was man-made
but this is on a whole nother level its mother nature at its finest I could in
this video by showing the hike back but this place is just too beautiful there's
no way I'm gonna top it so I'll leave you with this
for those that don't know my name is Kevin and I was in the military for 20
years I became a corporate lawyer and I kind
of got fed up with the nine-to-five so I quit my job to travel full-time so if
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