4-Day Self-Guided W Trek — Torres del Paine Highlights

You step off the bus in a spray of wind and sunlight, the gravel crunching underfoot as the map in your hand flaps like a small flag. Ahead, granite towers push into the sky — raw, angular, and indifferent — while the pampa rolls away in short grass and low shrubs. Over four days you’ll thread yourself through the classic “W”: the ascent to Las Torres base, the shorelines of Nordenskjöld, the French Valley’s hanging glaciers, and the peeled-blue face of Grey Glacier. Each day moves from wide-open steppe to beech forest to knife-edge ridgelines; the landscape keeps changing its mood as you walk.