“It means, if you eat the fruit of the calafate, you will be destined to return to Patagonia.”I certainly will—and probably in winter. Many aficionados consider Patagonia’s winter of June through August to be its best season. In mid-afternoon when Joaquim and I clambered down the last steep gradients, the winter sun was already low, the green-gold coirón grass casting long shadows. The mountains of Paine, Joaquim told me, are uplifts of igneous granite overlaid with a veneer of sedimentary shale, which gives the towers their distinctive bi-colored profile. This, I thought, is why you come to Patagonia in winter.

Source: Huffington Post June 11, 2017 21:00 UTC