SOUTHERN EXPOSURE

“Dear John, Welcome to the end of the world.” As hotel greetings go, this ominous note is hard to beat, even if tongue-in-cheek. Yet it’s almost true, with the hotel, The Singular Patagonia, located towards the tip of South America and overlooking the equally ominous Last Hope Sound.

I’d like to say that the husky team and I had chopped through ice, snow and drizzling rain to reach here, Puerto Natales, but while that might have been true 300 years ago – OK, forget the