El Chalten, Cerro Torre y FitzRoy 037

El Chalten: Trekking to Mount Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre

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May 3rd 2011
We took the bus to a town called El Chalten, it’s about three hours from El Calafate and it’s the jumping off point for treks to two mountains, Cerro Torre and Mount Fitz Roy. These mountains are massive and daunting and only two or three people are able to summit them every year. We arrived at our hostel, Condor del los Andes and got ourselves settled in. we met an Aussie guy at breakfast nam ... read more

South America » Argentina » Santa Cruz » El Chaltén

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more