Cerro Fitz Roy, Argentina. Posted: August 2, 2024 | Last updated: December 30, 2024 One of the best day hikes in South America, from El Chalten (the hiking capital of Argentina) to Laguna de los ...

This jagged, granite-walled mountain towers 11,000 feet over El Chaltén in Southern Patagonia. Mount Fitz Roy, which typically stands obscured in a haze of clouds, was originally named "Chaltén ...

In South America, religious icons are as common as sunrise, and shrines are ubiquitous. But a shrine studded with cigarette packs, bottles of beer and decks of playing cards? Population 800 ...

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Find out why El Chaltén, Argentina is on TIME's list of the world's greatest places of 2022. ... Hiking near Mount Fitz Roy and the De Los Tres lagoon on a summer day near El Chaltén, Argentina.

Hike among Argentina’s fabled Fitz Roy Massif, the iconic ridge where the peaks of Poincenot, St. Exupery, and 11,073-foot Fitz Roy itself rise out of the steppes of Patagonia like a vision.

After an attempt in winter – a moment which the two alpinists Michael Lerjen-Demjen and Jorge Ackermann describe as "one of the most important experiences of our lives" – from 14 to 16 November the ...