This jagged, granite-walled mountain towers 11,000 feet over El Chaltén in Southern Patagonia. Mount Fitz Roy, which typically stands obscured in a haze of clouds, was originally named "Chaltén ...

a chain of mountains that did not yet appear on the maps.” You can find more photos from Ferrandez and Tufts' 20-day expedition on Patagonia Vertical's Instagram.

Stretching across northwestern tip of Argentine Patagonia sits the picturesque Lake District. Sandwiched between the Andes mountains with Chilean Patagonia to the west and Atlantic Patagonia to ...

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