Perito Moreno Glacier with Tourists on Viewing Platform, Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina
The Perito Moreno Glacier rises above Lago Argentino in Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina, with two visitors observing from a wooden viewing platform on January 13, 2015.
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The Living Ice Cathedral
The Perito Moreno Glacier, one of the world's few advancing glaciers, dominates the Patagonian landscape with its towering blue ice wall reaching heights of over 70 meters above the milky turquoise waters of Lago Argentino.
A Front-Row Seat to Nature's Theater
Visitors gather on the network of wooden walkways and viewing platforms that snake through the subpolar Nothofagus forest, positioning themselves for the best vantage point to witness ice calving events and photograph this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Patagonian Summer Light
Captured during the Southern Hemisphere summer in January, the scene benefits from extended daylight hours and dramatic cloud formations that accentuate the glacier's azure crevasses against the snow-capped Andes Mountains backdrop.
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