After visiting the glacier in Calafate we caught the bus to El Chalten. El Chalten is a little village in the mountains which is quickly turning into a town, about half the buildings weren´t quite built yet and the roads were in the process of being paved. It´s location is amazing tho - both Cerro Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre are only about 3 hrs walk from the centre and both can be seen from the centre of the village, well when the weather permits anyway.
Unfortunatly the weather wasn´t really on our side this time, it was very grey and slightly rainy for the first few days and we didn´t see any mountains at all but we walked to Fitz Roy on our third day and it cleared up just at the end of the 3hr walk, right when we were closest which was very lucky and that was really awesome.
The weekend was really crap weather, lots of wind and rain and hardly any visibility til sunday evening when it cleared up a bit and we got our first view of cerro torre. We did the proper walk to Lago Torre/Glacier Torre on monday and got awesome views of the Torre Trio - (from left to right)Cerro Torre, Torre Egger and Cerro Stanhardt. These mountains have some of the best climbing history of any mountains and it was really good to see them for real!
After a 32 hr bus journey up ruta 40 in Argentina we are now in the Argentinian lakes district and it is much warmer which is very welcome after a week of shivering next to the tent in El Chalten (it was around 0 degrees every night). Anyway more soon!
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