Fitz Roy
The Patagonian winds’ birthday present to me today? Blowing away the clouds and mist, ever-so-briefly, from the peak of Mt. Fitz Roy, allowing an unusually rare pleasure: a clear look at all of this imposing mountain’s 3,359-metre high majesty.
AKA Cerro Chaltén, the mountain sits on the border between Argentina and Chile in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field and Los Glaciares National Park. It wasn’t climbed until 1952 and for mountaineers remains among the most technically challenging peaks on earth. I was content just admiring it from the edge of a forest after a ten-kilometer hike.
I even caught the cloudless peak on video, but that’s going to have to wait. Internet connections here in El Chalten are painfully slow and I can stare at a computer screen doing nothing for just so long. The only thing getting me through this three-photo upload –the two photos below were taken at different points in the hike– is some fine birthday company and a bottle of Altos Las Hormigas Malbec. 
Cheers!
Laguna Capri and Fitz Roy
Fitz Roy Range, from the east
Wow – I’ll bet this will be a birthday you’ll always remember! A pretty auspicious start to your year of exploring the globe – may it continue in the same vein
Most definitely among the more memorable bdays!
How kind of the clouds to magically present the entire view in honor of your birthday! The photos are stunning, and well worth the angst and frustrations of slow uploads! Glad you have good company and good vino tinto for the finale!
What a wonderful birthday present the winds gave you. Beautiful photos.
Thanks!
Now that’s worth lookin’ at !! Very nice shots … post card quality stuff.
Your birthday is one day before Darwin’s. And Darwin traveled on the HMS Beagle with the FitzRoy this mountain is named after. Somehow that all strikes me as significant, though it probably isn’t.
Anyway, Happy Darwin’s Birthday.
Thanks! Didn’t know that Darwin’s is the 12th – he’s not liked very much around these parts by the way.
That’s an awfully nice birthday present!
I always love mountains, and these peaks are particularly jagged and spectacular! Thanks for sharing your journey.
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