A vast advancing glacier near El Calafate that calves house-sized ice into the lake.
Near El Calafate, the Perito Moreno glacier is a 5 km-wide wall of ice that, unusually, is still advancing — and regularly calves apartment-sized blocks into the lake with a crack like thunder.
Boardwalks bring you face to face with it; it’s one of the most accessible great glaciers on Earth.
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