Monte Fitz Roy

Where to travel during summer in Argentina?

In summer, Argentina, offers many and varied options to enjoy. Its extensive territory contains a great wealth of landscapes, climates and emotions to experience. Today we offer a short list of emblematic destinations that you can combine according to the...

Hiking Mt. Fitz Roy – My personal experience

A first hand beautiful trekking experience in Mount Fitz Roy I had been planning the trip to El Chaltén since I can remember and the ultimate goal was to be as close to the marvellous Mt. Fitz Roy as possible. The beginning...

Hiking at El Chaltén: useful tips

Hikes near Mt. Fitz Roy: a cheat sheet with trails according to time available and the different levels of difficulty For one day or less Fitz Roy Lookout Point (Mirador del Cerro Fitz Roy): 1:30 one way, with a climb...

Trekking the Continental Ice Fields in Patagonia

Trekking on the Continental Ice is one of the most amazing and extreme experiences Patagonia offers The Patagonian Continental Ice Field, a relic of the last ice age, awaits adventurers who dare to surround the imposing Fitz Roy and Torre...

Mount Fitz Roy

Mt. Fitz Roy is one of the most appreciated peaks by mountaineers worldwide. Its altitude is 3,405 m. Mount Fitz Roy original name is Chaltén, that in Tehuelche dialect means "smoking mountain". This is due to a rare aeolic phenomenon...

El Chaltén & Mount Fitz Roy: Helpful advice for a splendid first time visit

El Chaltén, a new mecca for adventure tourism, is one of the youngest towns in Argentina. El Chaltén's stable population comes from all over the world and multiplies every year. Many came just to "spend the summer" and ended up...

Father de Agostini

This is the profile of one of the last explorers of the Extreme South: Father Alberto María de Agostini. A link between the old explorers and the modern travelers, Father de Agostini is an example of tradition and modernity united...

Patagonia, the discovery

Patagonia: a word that transports the reader to a magic, fascinating territory. As vast as it is unknown, it is conjured up in our imagination in many different ways. It has always been a land of conquest and colonization, ever...

Travelers and Scientists

Travelers and scientists are a different, special category of explorers. They no longer seek, like their predecessors, for gold or personal wealth. Instead, they are driven by the need of knowledge and the discovery of new species in order to...

The Captain’s Experiment

In these pages we will revisit the unbelievable story of the Yámana aborigine Jemmy Button, who was kidnapped in his town of Cape Horn by the officer of the British Royal Navy, Robert Fitz Roy. Together with other three members...