Monte San Valentin and Lago Fiero, Parque Nacional Laguna San Rafael, Patagonia, Chile

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I had the opportunity to photograph the mountains of Parque Nacional Laguna San Rafael, with their volcanic peaks, huge glaciers and icefields from an open door helicopter, Chile Chico, Patagonia. Another of the glacial lakes below the icefields and glaciers of Monte San Valentin, Patagonia's tallest peak, is the silt-brown Lago Fiero with its build up of glacial ice at its end. All of the proglacial lakes in the Northern Patagonia icefield are retreating with climate change, and Lago Fiero is retreating the fastest of all. The snow line elevation has gone up 100 M since 1987 and the glacier has retreated km, nearly doubling the size of the lake.

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Size: 5000px × 3333px
Location: Parque Nacional Laguna San Rafael, Chile Chico, Patagonia, Chile
Photo credit: © Terry Allen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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