ocr: Argentine and Chilean pampas, southern beech forests, enor- mous glaciers, and sparkling lakes of myriad hues. In Paine National Park in Chile, our small group ventures among the ice-clad peaks and granite needles of the Torres del Paine (10,000)-5,000 feet of near-vertical granite rising from rolling grasslands and beautiful lakes. After a scenic drive across the pampas to Argentina's Glacier National Park, we see more of Pata- gonia's unique rock spires like Fitzroy 11,073), a sheer- walled granite pinnacle rising 6,000 feet from the glaciers at its base, and nearby, the jagged aiguille of 1 ...