Showing posts with label parque nacional los glaciares. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parque nacional los glaciares. Show all posts

December 3, 2014

patagonia, inc. 2014 winter solstice catalog

Alejandro Nestor Caparrós, artist (& head park ranger at Parque Nacional Los Glaciares), burnishes a wood-carved map with pyrography tools in his home workshop.  Caparrós hand-crafts much of the signage in the park.

In this image he is wearing a very old, much loved, Patagonia, Inc. jacket that Thomas Ulrich gave him. Caparrós says that it's a very special piece because Ulrich wore it during the first winter ascent of Cerro Torre's West Face in 1999.

Alejandro Nestor Caparrós (AKA “Capa”), El jefe de guardaparques / Photo by Somira Sao
Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Provincia de Santa Cruz, El Chaltén, ARGENTINA (January 2011)

A big thanks to Cameron Tambakis (Photo Editor) and the rest of the Patagonia, Inc. Photo Department for keeping us afloat while we are "shipwrecked" here in Chile!