El Chalten and Los Glaciers National Park - From Ushuaia it was another day long journey to get to the Andes. Myself and Andre decided to visit Los Glaciers National Park to do some hiking. The area is famous for its Glaciers and Mount Fitz Roy. We spent four days hiking around the area, with two nights camping in the mountains.
The trek from the village into the mountains was the hardest part of the trip with steep hills and heavy back packs. We visited a frozen lake at the base of Fitz Roy (picture below).
We met up with our tour group the next morning for the glacier hike. The first part of the trip was crossing a river by hanging upside down and pulling yourself across (see the video of this if it works). We then hiked upto the Glacier, where we put on crampons and hiked across the ice for an hour or so.
We then reached a part of the glacier where we could have a go at ice climbling. Even though it was a smallish wall of ice I still really felt my arms and legs by the top.
We then hiked back down the glacier and back to the river and the rope crossing. The weather is so changeable and we had really strong winds coming back, enough for our small guide to be blown of the path by the force of the wind. After the river crossing it was back to El Chaltan and some nice food and a hot shower.
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