Our next stop, a 3 hour bus ride north of El Calafate, was El Chalten, also in Argentina, a tiny frontier town that was only set up about 25 years ago, solely as a tourist destination to access the Fitz Roy mountain range. It is known as the capital for hikers. The day we arrived here, the weather was still horrible, raining heavily the entire day. Towards the evening, as it got colder, the rain turned to snow, which persisted all night, so the following day we woke up to a stunning sight, with the town completely covered in a blanket of snow! This snow also blanketed the surrounding Fitz Roy mountains, so over the coming days during our hikes we got to see these spectacular mountains in all their snow covered glory. So a couple
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