Pioneer spirit
t the end of the 19th century, a Scottish immigrant landed on the Falkland Islands and joined a surge of people, and 5,000 sheep, travelling north from Punta Arenas to the Santa Cruz region of Argentina. Against all odds, he found a home in the seemingly uninhabitable Patagonian Desert, where the wind shapes everything – from the chronically bent trees to the century-smoothed mountains. Anything permanent must be as hardy as the rocky, that periodically interrupt the flatness.
