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South of latitude 46° 30’ S are two large ice fields, the Northern Patagonian Ice Field and the Southern Patagonian Ice Fields. Here ice fills completely the depressions between the island-like mountains to an altitude of about 1500 m. These are the two remnant parts of the much larger Patagonian Ice Sheet that covered most of Patagonia during previous ice ages. The GPT guides you though the mountains about 100 km east of the Northern Ice Field. Here you can opt between attractive hiking and attractive packrafting routes but weather is volatile and distances between settlements are substantial. Towards the current southern terminus of the GPT you reach the eastern edge of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field what makes an impressive finish (GPT38 to GPT40). Here you can walk and paddle though a rough wind battered land full of milky glacier lakes that get constantly refilled by immense streams of ice that flow down from the ice fieldSouthern Patagonian Ice Field.