Wildlife Safari to The Argentine: Los Glaciares National Park
(1972)
Also known as: Episode 5
Among the Patagonian Andes, this park offers the most spectacular scenery in all Argentina. An ice-cap feeds glaciers of extraordinary beauty, that in turn give birth in the lakes below to giant icebergs. A wealth of wildfowl, including Black-necked swans (Cygnus melancoryphus), grace the waters, the virgin forests of southern beech trees are home to the Carpintero patagonico, a dramatic woodpecker, and on the scrubby plains the expedition searches for the guanaco, a wild, much-persecuted member of the camel family. Disobeying the local rule among glaciers, one is advancing, not retreating, and has created a vast natural reservoir damming millions of gallons of water.
