The wind in Torres del Paine does not blow; it sculpts. Stepping off the bus at the Laguna Amarga entrance, the first thing that hits you isn’t the view—it is the air. It is a physical force, arriving fresh from the Antarctic circumpolar current, carrying the scent of salt, ozone, and ancient ice. For an ecologist, this wind is the region's heartbeat. It stunts the Nothofagus  trees into bonsai-like krummholz  formations and drives the lenticular clouds that cap the granite t