Bean Bowers' recollection of traversing and ice lake is good stuff. I want to share it with my 5th graders:
"As I worked my way along, I gazed up at the steep glacier, dreading the long slog up to the snow cave. Just then, smack in the middle of the lake, I heard a crack and in an instant I was sinking. Pinned. Stuck. Screwed. My skis had gone from a light-and-fast ticket across the lake to deadweight anchors. I stopped sinking once my pack hit the slurpee-like water. I looked at the shore as the weight of my situation fully sunk in. Swim or die...."
Get the full episode from Patagonia here.
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