Blown Away in Patagonia

Holger seemed unconcerned with geological instability at the stem end of earth.

Friend with me, the three towers in background

“I wonder when the last rock slide occurred,” I said to Holger, my German hiking companion, as we scrambled, occasionally on all fours, to scale this steep rubble. Our target point, atop a nearly vertical incline, was the lookout for the three towers.