Wheeling to the End of the World

To continue with the theme of travel for people with disabilities, this post is about a national park with hiking trails named Torres del Paine in southern Chile. The beauty of the 1,127-square-mile park draws people from all over the world. One of its trails, Base de las Torres (a leg of the W trek), ends with a rocky ascent. With assistance, Álvaro Silberstein became the first person in a wheelchair to make it to the end of the W trek in 2016. He was pushed in an all-terrain wheelchair called Jóelette, which can be used by anyone with reduced mobility for free, but it must be reserved in advance at EcoCamp Patagonia. Silberstein was featured in a short film entitled Adventure Is for All, which won first place in the Adventure in Motion film contest last year. He founded Wheel the World, a travel company for people with disabilities in Chile as well as Peru and Mexico. To read more about hiking in Torres del Paine, go to https://www.ozy.com/good-sht/where-you-can-hike-to-the-end-of-the-world-in-a-wheelchair/91062?fbclid=IwAR09T1bW9aXInyoJbbcZMWHbXBgoA1X_iF6CXFLiPnc7krTI0B5UnwAQWJ0.

Álvaro Silberstein and others during his trek

(image via sfchronicle.com)