Patagonia: Images of a Wild LandThe photographs were taken by Melbourne photographer and climber David Neilson during several visits to the region in the mid-1970s. These images portray, in both colour and black and white, the wild and elemental nature of this stormy land.' |
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Adela Range Admiralty Sound Agostini Aguja Poincenot alpine Andean Cordillera Argentina Argentinian arrived ascent Bahía boat Buenos Aires Cabo Calafate camp Cerro Torre Chile Chilean climbing cloud condor Cordillera Darwin Cuernos del Paine difficult Douglas east face eastern side Eléctrico Eloisa eventually expedition exploration Eyre Sound fiords Fitz Roy fixed ropes fore-summits forest guanaco highest peak Hyatt Sound ice-mushroom icebergs Isla kilometres Lago Nordenskjöld Lautaro Maestri Magnone Marconi Glacier massif Mauri metres morning Mount Darwin Mount Sarmiento mountain north face northern Nothofagus overhanging Patagonia Patagonia and Tierra PATAGONIA Journey Patagonian Ice-cap region ridge Río river rock route Roy & Cerro sailed Shipton sledge slopes South America south-east southern beech Southern Ice-cap southernmost species spectacular steep storm Strait of Magellan Tehuelche tent Terray Tierra del Fuego Torre Egger torrent duck Torres del Paine Tower traverse valley Valparaíso Ventisquero voyage waters west face western wind yacht