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The cycle proved to be a battle against the elements. Sideways snow and rain hammered us for days, and the sandy, gravelled roads wrought havoc on our bikes. We pushed South nevertheless on the famous Carretera Austral that snakes through lush green forests and over snow-capped peaks, before heading East and onto the contrasting Route 40, a barren dessert exposed to the ferocious Patagonian winds. For nine days we pushed on through the pain and the headwinds, punctures and falls, until we arrived into El Chalten, a small mountain town and the scene for our next chapter.
