Eden and Josh

It´s been a while since the last update so I´ll try to keep this short and up to where we are now. Also, I used up all of the photo storage for the month here so more photos are on Flickr.

In the tiny town of El Chalten we did a 4.5 day trek around the jagged mountain peaks of Cerro Torre and the Fitz Roy massiff. These two peaks are highly prized mountaineering peaks and until somewhat recently the Cerro Torre was believed to be unclimbable. The Fitz Roy was named after the French captain of the Beagle and the first European to see it was Charles Darwin.

We decided to save our ice trek/climb for Chalten since it was the better (and cheaper) location to do it in compared to Torres del Paine and Calafate. I should get some photos of this up on Flickr.

Camping at the first camp near Cerro Torre was horrible. We were warned the first night that there were mice but nothing would have prepared us for it. They were climbing all over our tent chewing ANYTHING plastic. Basically we stayed up all night hitting the tent to knock them off. Not very enjoyable.

The trek itself was excellent and not nearly as long as our Torres itinerary.