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 time you have and your personal tastes. Here we go! Buenos Aires: modernity and distinction… Read on
Monte Fitz Roy
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 of the trail leading to the Fitz Roy was a few blocks from the hostel… Read on
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 of 350 meters and low difficulty. Lake Capri (Laguna Capri): 1:45 one way, a climb… Read on
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 hills. The excursion can be done in two modalities: sighting of the Continental Ice from… Read on
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 that makes its top always appear as it was surrounded by clouds, which gives the… Read on
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 willing to stay for life. The shelter of the imposing Mount Fitz Roy and the… Read on
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 in a single person. Like the first explorers he was filled with the spirit of… Read on
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 since Fernando de Magallanes discovered the Patagonian coast and the Strait that bears his name…. Read on
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 describe the natural world that surrounded them. Frenchman D’Orbigny and later Charles Darwin, the famous… Read on
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 of his ethnic group, he was taken to London, where he would be educated in… Read on