Glaciers

During the cruise we had a few informative sessions, one of them was about glaciers, since this region of Chile is abundant with them. Anyway they told us about the Pio IX glacier, and they said it was advancing at a rate of 20 meters a day (or was advancing at this rate in 1920), they also claimed it was the only advancing glacier in South America. So now I heard two claims for the "only advancing glacier in south America" during the last few weeks. The other one was Perito Moreno in Argentina. After pressing the presenter about this fact , she claimed that Perito Moreno is only in balance and not advancing. I am not sure who to believe , but I tend to lean towards the Chilean version, since Perito Moreno have been fighting with that lake channel for tens of years now with out managing to overcome it once and for all.

The picture above is a sunset over glacier grey.