Dr Pomfret enjoying the bracing air near El Chalten, Argentina. We spent three days in this charming spot, each of them with more distressing weather than the last. The walk on which JP is pictured was supposed to take us to Mount Fitz Roy, the glorious peak towering over this small town and a Mecca for trekkers in Patagonia. What we saw was some mist, a bit of rain and some horizontal snow (pictured). Some people we met had arrived the day before us and talked this route in glorious sunshine, then showed us the pictures to prove it. Pah.