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Meet Dave Nettle Dave Nettle, cofounder of the Alpenglow Sports Winter Speaker Series, and often touted as one of the best storytellers alive, rounds out our 19th annual season with his presentation of "Patagonia: A Climber’s Journey Shaped by Wind and Stone" When Dave is on stage, he makes you feel as if he is a dear friend hanging out in your living room, sharing stories from his latest adventures. Equal parts humorous, educational, honest, and encouraging, he leaves you with the urge to travel, and the sheer excitement that only adventure can induce. "Patagonia - A Climber’s Journey Shaped by Wind and Stone" The wild and remote place called Patagonia is a vast area encompassing the land of Argentina and Chile, between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and below latitude 39 degrees south to the Strait of Magellan. It’s almost completely untouched, with a few small urban centers acting as drop off points to huge expanses of wilderness that contain everything from volcanoes and glaciers to deep fjords and pampas. Even with all this region has to offer, it’s the dramatic towers and walls of granite and ice that dominate Los Glaciares and Torres del Paine National Parks that draw alpinists to this magical place.