There are places where it is quiet
13 August 2026 · 54°56′ S · остров Наварино · Maksim · Patagonia Travel
There are beautiful places. And there are quiet places - truly quiet, without a single person on the horizon. Of the second kind almost none are left on the planet.
Dientes de Navarino is the southernmost trek in the world. You walk out of Puerto Williams - and that is it: not a soul around. In four days I met two people, both trekkers. In places there is no trail, in places there is one but you cannot see it: you either climb the mountain in the literal sense or push through the scrub, and without a map there is nothing to do here. In twenty years of travel I had not seen places with no people at all. Even in the deepest wilderness someone turned up. Not here.
On the second day without people you begin to hear the silence. Then yourself. As if you crossed into another dimension and come back from it a little different. The last mountains before Antarctica know how to do that.