El Chalten Hotels - Reviews and Rates

We got to this unknown place of El Chalten around 4:30 am. While trying to figure out where we are and what to do in the middle of no where, there it was a light at the end of tunnel and I saw the Glacier Macaroni with their lights on and the friendly face of the woman at the door. 35ARS per night in El Chalten is great especially for the rooms ...

As I mentioned in the previous post, El Chalten is home to two of the most famous mountains in the world. Monte Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre. Both are way, way out of my league in terms of climbing. In fact, Cerro Torre was once considered unclimbable. Just seeing these mountains would be enough for me, and I had 5 days to do just that. The first da...

22 noviembre 2008: nos levantamos antes de las 6 de la mañana para ver el tiempo que hacia. En la oficina de montañismo nos han advertido que las rachas de viento de hasta 100 km/h hacen imposible la caminata de montaña y que debemos asegurarnos de que el cerro esta despejado antes de ni siquiera pensar en acercarnos. No nos hizo falta ni abrir ...

Los Glaciers National park is the third largest ice field in the world behind Antarctica and Greenland. Spanning the boarder between Chile and Argentina in Southern Patagonia, there are three major access points - Torres del Paine, which is the South West corner in Chile, Peirto Moreno Glacier on the South East Corner in Argentina, and El Chalt...

We only spent one full day here on our route to El Calafate. Selina was sick in the morning so I went on the tour to the glacier lake by myself. The drive was about an hour long to get to the national glacier park. About half an hour in, the bus sqeals to a stop and the driver starts jumping around and shouting in Spanish. there´s a general furo...

We flew from Ushuaia to El Calafate (we had some ticketing problems but with a little more $$ we still made it the same day). We hopped straight on a bus to El Chalten which is the little climbers town at the base of Fitzroy (the patagonia logo) and Cerro Torre (one of the hardest peaks in the world - more than 22 pitches up the "easy" route)......

Monday 29th Oct We had decided to split from El Calafate and head to El Chaltén 5 hours up the road for a bit more physical torture to get the body some way fit, in between the numerous steaks and cheap plonk, before heading to Peru. Got up to the town about lunchtime. It was only founded in 1985 purely as hikers ville haven for the surrounding ...

So we found ourselves on a freezing bus in order to get to the next town, the bus was so cold that the condensation was freezing on the inside of the windows. We stopped a couple of times on the way in order to take photos of the mountain range that overlooks the town, apart from these short stops the journey was surprisingly quick Once we arriv...

Day 4 - Up at 4:45 again. This was out last chance to see Fitzy at sunrise. It was partly cloudy but we got up for what was a strenuous 1 hour climb up to Laguna De Los Tres in the dark. It was cloudy by the time we reached the mirador, but we did get about 2 minutes of fantastic lighting. The loud Israelis were up at the viewpoint so we made s...

So Friday took us to El Chaltén, really really in the middle of nowhere, the north part of the basically inaccessible Parque Nacional Los Glaciers. 5 hours on a bus on really bumpy roads from El Calafate brought us here. Its 230km NW of the town and is situated at the foot of the jagged peak of the FitzRoy Massif whose sides are too steep for sn...