Chile's Constantly Changing

Torres del Paine (1/3)

There's nothing normal about the Torres del Paine National Park where the weather changes minute by minute?

Torres del Paine National Park, near the southernmost tip of South America, astounds those who venture into its range. It is challenging,baffling and constantly changing.

On my visit, the morning rain was horizontal when I asked Claudio, manager at Hosteria Las Torres, if he knew the next day's forecast. His reply: "Nobody knows."

"Nothing is normal"

Later the same day, there was bright sunshine. At my hotel's front desk, I asked Marco, the clerk on duty, if days here normally started out cloudy, then cleared in the afternoon. His reply: "Nothing is normal."

It may not be normal-this expansive national park in Chilean Patagonia-but it is spectacularly beautiful.

Winds create wonder

The large windows of the Hosteria Pehoe dining room overlook Lake Pehoe. Beyond this impossibly blue lake, the blueness broken only by whitecaps raised by the park's infamous?winds, are the Cuernos del Paine (the Horns of Paine). To photograph these peaks, which rise 2,600 meters, is to take hundreds of photographs knowing that no two photos of these same mountains taken from the same place will be alike. This is not . It is fact.hyperbole

Clouds drape them, frame them, envelop them, expose them-the changes happening as fast as you just read. It's the winds. You'll be eating your eggs at breakfast, camera by your side, and all at once the sun will catch a particular peak just right, and you'll grab the camera and race outside and snap that photo and stand there in the wind and watch in awe, knowing the moment was, indeed, a moment.

Vocabulary Focus

horizontal (adj) ---level with or parallel to the ground

expansive (adj) ---large, open, wide; especially describing an area of land, sea or sky

drape (v) ---to loosely cover something as with a cloth

Specialized Terms

whitecaps (pl. n) ---白色碎浪waves which are white at the top

hyperbole (n) ---（修辭的）夸張法a way of speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound bigger or better than they are

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