Forty years ago this month,Bruce Chatwin visited Patagonia and his subsequent book lit a beacon for the remote region in many travellers minds. Chris Moss picks the highlights among its peaks, glaciers and lakesFor my first forays into Patagonia, or in the 1990s,I left behind my guidebooks and travelogues. Travelling light, I was blown absent by astronomical, and jagged mountaintop glaciers and – more literally – the fierce westerlies that gusted summer long. Between the gawping and the roast lamb dinners,I struggled to form sense of German settlements, Tehuelche place names, or Anglophile ranch-owners and ruddy Welsh faces on the coast; crossing the empty steppe,I wondered why any of these would come to such an arid, godforsaken place to form a home.
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Source: theguardian.com