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	Coming Closer — Another view of the glacier front as we hike towards it, with broken pieces floating in front of it.
	Compressed Air — The most attractive feature of the glacier is its deep blue color, caused by the refraction of light on pockets of tightly-compressed air and small particles of natural elements and algae. The range of color is most intense at the advancing edges, where hundreds of layers of ice can be seen stretching from the water surface, to the top 60 meters above.
	Zona de Endicamiento — Keith is interrupted from his mesmerized state, watching the water rush from one lake to the other, through and around a small ice tunnel. When not in the path of the winds blowing off the glacier, the air isn't nearly as cold, but still chilly enough to need ear warmers!
	Toward the Canal — Water rushes through to the Canal de los Tempanos, carrying thousands of small fragments of ice that have fallen off the glacier, in a process known as "calving".
	Calving — As the glacier advances, tall pillars of ice form as cracks grow wider from pressure and the heat of the sun. Every so often, a giant piece of ice will break off and plummet to the water in a spectacular crash — hence the name of the canal. To give a sense of scale, the piece that broke off the top here was about 20 meters tall — less than half the height of the glacier itself.
	Zona de Endicamiento — Erin takes her turn at the posing platform.
	Ice Tunnel — The rushing water carries the broken pieces of calved ice through a tunnel formed out of the glacier, piling up at the other side in the narrow entrance to the canal.
	Deep Blue — It's impossible to take your eyes off the deep turquoise colors inside the glacier — every one looks even more brilliant than the one before it.

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