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El Chalten Slideshow
El Chalten
Travel Blogs from El Chalten, Argentina
Another one bites the dust......
Op 21 februari 2006, nabij Campo Britannico in Torres del Paine, Chile, ging Mark op z´n knieën en zei Hylda volmondig ¨JA!¨ Bereid jezelf maar voor op een feessie als we terugkomen! de plek de zoen de ring de cigaar de ...
Conquered ...
... got to try her hand at ice-climbing. Joel having done it before was able to show-off to the group! We arrived back in El Chalten just after 7.00pm, exhausted and barely able to walk another step, we fell into the local cervezeria, downed a couple of cold ...
Mountains, mountains, mountains..
A four hour bus trip from El Calafate takes you to El Chalten, a small river valley town. The scenery is amazing, with views of the 3441 meter Fitzroy snow capped mountain range - apparently a world class mountaineering destination. We did some hikes ...
By 'eck it's a bit cosy in 'ere i'nt it?
... on Viedma Glacier with a group of Brits on a hiking holiday. There is something particularly amusing about sitting on a bus in southern Argentina waiting to see who you'll be spending the day with when their first words, as they get on the bus, are 'By ...
Windy but sunny El Chalten
... our local guide or CEO = Chief Experience Officer for the rest of the trip and then the 3 hour or approx 180 km drive to windy El Chalten. Sure enough it was windy as we reached this small village at 5 pm. A climber said this that was the first clear day ...
Welcome to Patagonia!
... deemed unclimbable for many years, but now people come from all over the world to summit the spiky, near vertical peaks. El Chalten is really quiet and mellow, and all of its residents take their siestas very seriously, closing the shops from 2pm ...
how's it goin there
... that. He was really good. Looked a bit like Hugo Duncan, but sounded nothing like him, thank God. Next day I was driving to El Chalten. I'd already been advised that the drive is 12 hours long by a boy racer. I guessed you could add at least another ...
Into the Andes Mountains
A 4 hour overland bus ride from El Calafate to El Chalten, located on the Argentina - Chile border, along the spine of some of the tallest peaks in the Andes. The deceptively-named National Route 40 highway (which was 80 percent rubble, 20 percent ...
Ruta 40 and the Fitz Roy Range
... evening. The next morning we head out separately but both going south. The day was a long ride but I made it to El Chalten in good shape. This is the hiking capital of Argentina in the spectacular Fitz Roy mountain range. Not much of ...
It´s Friggin Glacier Country!
... take up some serious mountaineering in the near future to see these behemouths while they still exist. Another highlight of my Chalten experience was my dinner out to Como Vaca, a local Parilla, or BBQ joint. Now, south americans really know ...
Fitz Roy
Had dinner with an Argentinean Industrial Engineer who works for Delphi in Buenos Aires, designing and fabricating radios and hands free electronics for American cars among other things. he has been here eight days, has blisters all over and has trekked ...
El Chalten
... to deal with the weight of cooking equipment so it is sandwiches, granola, oreos and fruit. Chalten's store is very basic and overpriced. After leaving El Calafate, the lake and mountains appear. Beautiful. It gets better until climaxing with a ...
Mountain Man Returns to Civilization
Yesterday I wandered back into 'town' (El Chaltén). I felt like Sylvester Stalone in Rambo (ok, maybe he's a BIT tougher. But I did feel just as out of place). I've spend the last 6 days hiking in the mountains and LOVING it. I was dirty, smelly, wet and ...
El Chalten
We left El Chalten on Wednesday after six nights here. It was originally supposed to be four nights, but El was taken ill and we had to delay our departure. We did two big hikes whilst we were here. The first was to a lake with a glacier ...
Mountains, glaciars and Christmas asado
... We walked back across the glaciar, up and down the mountain, stopped at the camp again, sped along the valleys and hills back to El Chalten and finished the trek in 11 instead of 12 hours. T: Something for what I was really proud of you and Anke. All ...
Another Beautiful Mountain in the Andes
By this point I want to say everyone has to come to Patagonia but then part of the beauty is the isolation so maybe not!! We had the most fantastic weather here, not a cloud in the sky for 2 days so the views were stunning. We are still in the Glacier ...
Another journey in search of Cerro Torre
... from a different perspective. When we returned from our hike, we had about an hour before we had to catch a four hour bus back to El Chaltén. This bus ride would be the last of way too many during a short period of time. A few of us commented on how ...
just a quickie...
Hey, just a quick note. we just got back from 4 days, 3 nights backpacking. pretty nice. We leave tonight for El Calafate. ill write more when i get there, the internet here is expensive cause were basicaly in the middle of nowhere...And i smell really ...
Landscape to die for!
... an early night we were buggered! Day 2 was meant to be Cerro Torre but the weather was windy as hell and not unusual for El Chalten and clouds everywhere so instead we did 2 short treks up around town, which were nice and not too strenuous but so BLOODY ...
Crossing from Argentina to Chile
... able to find a bus that went directly from Punta Arenas to Coyhaique and so many people telling us that the crossing from Argentina to Chile (from El Chalten to Villa O Higgins) was so nice, we decided to do it. That involved carrying all our stuffs on ...
Glacier Hiking
... place with piping hot water, warm blankets, soap and fresh towels. The place was private and peaceful. Note: The remoteness of Chalten made Internet access cost 12 pesos an hour. Compare this to the 1 peso low it cost us in Buenos Aires (1 ...
Hiking in the Fitzroy Range
... leaving our favorite hostel from our 5 months of travelling. Only 3 hours later & we were just outside our next destination, El Chalten, when the bus driver stopped to let us out to take a picture of the fantastic view of the Fitzroy Mountain behind ...
Rio Electrico
Up at sunrise to see Fitzroy glow in the morning sun. Only a couple of people are up. My packing is simple and I am off early. This trail is much harder. It follows the river with much scree, lots of working around obstacles, and markers ...
Trek autour du Cerro Torre et Fitz Roy
... 2 nuits, je decide de rester une nouvelle quand je retrouve Glenn qui est partit un jour apres moi. Je rentre finalement vers El Chalten en sa compagine. Il veut rester la pour d autres marches. Je m essaye le lendemain au stop pour rejoindre El Calafate ...
No more trekking?!
... enough because the weather had been pretty bad for the last few days. Buses stop in the national park visitors center before arriving at El Chalten where the park rangers give a quick talk on the rules of the park and hand out maps. They provide a great ...
Horses
1/23 El Chalten, Argentina Miles travelled: 43703 Today we wanted to see a viewpoint of Fitzroy Peak, but the trail is 5 hours each way, so we booked with a group to ride horses up the trail. The pace was quite fast, with frequent trotting, and ...
El Chalten
... ;s dry here which makes 7 degrees feels warm. We then packed up the car and drove three hours north to the town of El Chalten. The landscape on the way was a dry yellow brown covered here and there with prickly, resilient looking plants. There ...
More trekking
... and having blister covered feet, what better thing to do than more trekking... Right? Anyway after the bus ride I was in El Chalten, a really small town where the only main thing you could do was trekking. After finding a cheap hostel I headed off for ...
Mount Fitz Roy
... . The evenings were mostly spent chatting to the locals, watching films and drinking beer in the this little ski lodge restaurant which i decided to call home for few days. After 4 days in El Chaltan it was time to move north to Argentine lake ...