Torres Del Paine Day 4 - Lago Dickson to Camp Paso

• Campsite: Paso
• Costs: Campsite FREE
• Distance Covered: 24km

Well and truly into our flow we set off originally planning on staying at Perro camp but we arrived there at 1pm and not wanting to hang around we decided to power on and go for Paso camp. This meant we would be combining what we planned as 2 days into 1, including the hardest part of the entire trek, the summit of Paso John Gardner.

As we left Perro camp at 1.45pm the park ranger told us we would be the last on the trail as 2pm was the cut of time to begin this particular section. We weren’t too concerned, with 17 hours of daylight it wasn’t going to get dark anytime soon.

The walk turned out to be quite difficult and steep with a rocky uneven path.

But once we reached the 1200m summit we were rewarded with the most outstanding view.

The pains went away as we were able to see miles and miles of glacier ice fields which, from a distance, looked similar to the ripples of the classic 80’s dessert, Viennetta ice-cream.

We stood for a while taking in the immense power of this natural structure. As we were the last people on the walk we had the place to ourselves which was a truly spectacular experience.

Unfortunately the camp was all the way down the other side so we still had another 3 hours of difficult downhill walking to endure. As we were beginning to feel tired it was a challenge trying not to fall over.

We had set off from Dickson camp at 9am and were pleased when our sore feet finally reached Paso camp at 7pm. The camp was basic but it was free. It really didn’t matter anyway as by this point we could have fallen asleep anywhere.