Wilderness Medicine Podcast · Wilderness Medical Society

¡Episodio extra en español!

March 26, 2026·37 min·3 clips
Marcelo Noria recommends checking three weather apps: if two say rain and one says cloudy, you prepare for rain.
This Spanish-language episode of the Wilderness Medicine Podcast features Marcelo Noria, a mountain guide and rescue director, analyzing the 2025 trekking disaster in Chile's Torres del Paine National Park where five hikers died in a blizzard with 190 km/h winds. The discussion focuses on the gap between online portrayals of the route and its dangerous reality, and provides practical frameworks for wilderness risk assessment and decision-making.

As heard by us

A rescue story that treats weather, radio calls, and false confidence as one problem.

The episode works best as a tight lesson in mountain judgment and emergency logistics, using a rescue in Torres del Paine to ground the discussion.

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Why you'd press play

A windy rescue in Patagonia, plus the human habit of trusting the crowd.

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