At the End of the World.
Your Journey Begins.
El Chaltén is the gateway to Mount Fitz Roy and the most dramatic section of the Andes in this region. It is a small town in Argentine Patagonia that functions as the base for the most celebrated trekking routes on the continent, including the iconic trails to Laguna de los Tres and Laguna Torre. The mountain light here changes constantly, and the peaks disappear into cloud for days at a time before revealing themselves with complete clarity.
Torres del Paine is the Chilean counterpart, and the image most commonly associated with Patagonia. The three granite towers that give the park its name rise above turquoise lakes in conditions that shift from calm to savage within a single afternoon. The park covers more than 180,000 hectares and contains ecosystems ranging from Patagonian steppe to glacial valleys. For those seeking raw beauty and absolute stillness, this is the defining landscape of the south.
Perito Moreno is the glacier, and the most visceral natural spectacle in the region. Located within Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina, it advances into Lago Argentino at a rate that causes regular calving events: sections of ice the size of buildings break from the face and collapse into the water. It is one of the few glaciers in the world that is not in retreat, which gives the experience a quality of permanence that most glacial environments no longer offer.
The complete journey connects all three landscapes, moving between Chile and Argentina through a wilderness that grows wilder the further south you travel.
No place replaces another. Together they form a picture found nowhere else in the world.
