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Glacier ruptures in rare winter breakup
(Agencies) Updated: 2008-07-08 08:24
Splinters of ice peel off from one of the sides of the Perito Moreno glacier in a process of a unexpected rupture during the southern hemisphere's winter months, near the city of El Calafate in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, southern Argentina, July 7, 2008. The Perito Moreno glacier, part of the Los Glaciares National Park, a World Heritage site, measures 250 square kilometers (97 square miles), and is one of the few glaciers which is advancing instead of retreating.The glacier in El Calafate is vanishing, said the Agencies report on 7July. That’s my last destination in Argentina I had missed. It was one single morning, things changed 180 degree in just a couple minutes.
Remember the last phrase of my adventure in Argentine, I got stuck in Mendoza because of a little mistake, a missing passport and a stolen bag with all valuables including a camera. The accident left me with a backpack of dirty clothes. My journey detoured in Central Argentina, stopping me from getting to my dream glacier far down south.
Life is really funny. It was Iguazu Falls, the most fabulously splendid spectacular I've ever seen, that brought me to Argentina in the first place. And once I got to reach this dream destination, immediately I found another destination where could I yet to reach and soon has become my next dream - El Calafate, Perito Moreno Glacier.
Because of the thievery in Mendoza, I couldn't continues my trip to Patagonia which means I too couldn't hit the Moreno Glacier. However sad I felt, life brought me to Puente del Inca (2,740m) instead, the first camp site to reach the Aconcagua (the highest mountain outside of Asia), and it all because of the French girls and the accident in Mendoza.
And you know well enough that if I the break-up and its turmoil didn't happen in Aug, I wouldn't make my trip to Argentina.
S, 我竟然開始習慣了用英文表達自己(是真的習慣了,抑或其實是掉失了用自己的語言表達的靈敏?)來到這裡,我不可以不寫中文了。是你說的他是個幸福兒,能夠分享我一生最快樂的日子,事實是你明明白白的了解,大概我人生的二十多年來,最愉快是跟他在一塊。
Destiny,若如你和他所說,我可否把我的,翻譯如下:如果05 年英國的大學選擇了我,我便不會去到多倫多,於是便不會認識這個英國人;如果家裡沒有意外,他沒有轉課程,06 年的秋天我們不會在北美再見面;如果沒有睡,我們一會不經不覺走在一起;如果沒有走在一起然後同居,我們便不會分手;如果那初秋沒有分手,07年的秋天我或者會跟他在某處繼續撕磨;如果,你沒有從天掉下來跟我在toronto downtown 走了一個凌晨,我不會決定得了給自己克服恐懼、去一倘阿根庭;如果,沒有分手,沒有去阿根庭,便不會完了Iguazu Fall 的夢,也不會,發現原來世界上有像 Moreno Glacier 這樣的冰川。
在 Mendoza 月圓的一晚,我曾經很想很想跟他一起看冰川。S,花了整整兩天站在瀑布底下明白,現在我可以肯定的跟你說,Iguazu 是應該兩個人看的。我曾經把我和他在Niagara Fall 前拍下的、被撕開了的合照,放在 Iguazu 的 Devil Throat 前面,試著扮拍合照。結果那張相,連同相機都給偷走了。
栽種有時,拔出所栽種的也有時。
我決定,那個冰川我絶對不會容許自己一個人看。在它溶掉進南極洋之前,如果我還未能容得下另一個他在身邊的話,你和我去看冰川吧。