PMA - Patagonian Multisport Adventure

(ID 140)

Day 1 El Calafate Airport - El Chalten

We welcome you at Calafate airport and then we drive our way across the Patagonian steppe and around Lakes Argentino and Viedma to El Chalten, a small and picturesque mountain village at the foot of Mount Fitz Roy. Driving distance 220 km. Free time in the afternoon to explore the town or the surroundings or to walk to the different viewpoints of the mountains.

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: None

(ID 141)

Day 2 Lago del Desierto with bikes

After breakfast, we take a bus to Lago del Desierto; 36 Km on a beautiful road alongside forests, and bordering the Río de las Vueltas. Once we get to Punta Sur, you will have the rest of the day to do any of the activities available on the area. Then, we start our adventure; we get on the bikes to undo the way, back to El Chalten, enjoying this great natural area.

Suggested activities:
- From Punta Sur you can navigate Lago del Desierto and visit Vespigniani Glacier area, or do a hike to Huemul Glacier.
- At Huemul Natural Reserve you can visit Laguna Azul

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch

Suggested activities are not included

(ID 142)

Day 3 Mount Fitz Roy - Laguna de los Tres

Carrying only day personal items to spend one night in camp, a short transfer will takes us to Estancia El Pilar.
we hike along Fitz Roy trail up to Rio Blanco, climbers basecamp to the east side of the mountain. From here a steep 1 hour trail leads us to one of the most spectaculars viewpoints of the National Park: Laguna de los Tres, with its zephyr blue color, lies at the foot of the massif, offering full close up views of Fitz Roy massif spires and glaciers. Each wall raises something from 600 to 1500 mts above the surrounding glaciers. Fitz Roy, with its 3405 mts above sea level, is considered the “King of Patagonia” and also considered one of the three most beautiful mountains on Earth (together with Alpamayo in Perú and K2 in the Karakoram). We hike back to our camp where we spend the night.

Lodging: Full Camp

Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch, Dinner

Full Camps are pitched up early in the season, so we find the camp ready upon arrival. It offers comfortable igloo type tents for 1 or 2 passengers, with insulation mat and sleeping bags. The camp also features a spacious dinning tent, a kitchen tent, tables, benches or chairs and a full set of table service and kitchenware. The sanitary services are latrine-type (rural area).

(ID 22)

Day 4 Cerro Torre – El Chalten

Today we walk south along Lagoons Madre and Hija Valley and down to Fitz Roy river valley, where we meet Cerro Torre trail. The trail runs along beech forest, bogs and shrubland and leads to Laguna Torre, enclosed by moraines and with Glacier Grande calving in its west side. It is usual to see icebergs pushed by the wind in the coast of the lagoon. The thin and elegant 3128 mts of Cerro Torre group and the Adela range in the background complete this spectacular view. In the afternoon we hike back to El Chalten along Cerro Torre trail.

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch

(ID 144)

Day 5 El Chalten – El Calafate with Kayak at Rio la Leon

Today we start our day with a bus transfer to Parador La Leona, where we will meet kayaking guide. Surrounded by a landscape of outstanding natural beauty and geological interest, we will paddle and hike the wild steppe where the senses are sharpened and the sounds of silence are witnesses of time. The contrast of the ocher steppe with turquoise glacial waters that delighted explorers such as Darwin, Moyano and Moreno, frame the journey. 8 miles paddling along one of the most stuning Patagonian steppe rivers and hiking through los Hornos Mount discovering the beginings of Patagonian geography where we can see petrified trees and bones. We arrive to El Calafate around 04:30 PM.

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch

(ID 143)

Day 6 Perito Moreno Glacier

We dedicate this day to one of the World’s Natural Wonder: the Moreno glacier. This ice field- type glacier flows down from the Patagonian Icefield, a big sheet of ice that with its 22.000 square kilometers is the third largest glacier area in the world, after Antarctica (14 M sq km) and Greenland (1 M sq km). Because unusual favorable local conditions, this glacier is the only one in the world that shows a closure and rupture process. The road leads to the very front of the glacier, which will be only meters away from your eyes. The roar of the chunks of ice falling inside the glacier or from the glacier into the lake, the frequent collapse of the front seracs into the turquoise water, makes out of this day a very special and unique experience.
In the afternoon we go back to our hotel at El Calafate.

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: Breakfast

Optional activity: Navigate Argentino Lake or Minitrekking (need to be purchase in advance)

(ID 4)

Day 7 El Calafate - Day at leisure

This day is free, with the possibility to choose between the optional proposals that the city of the Calafate offers

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: Breakfast

Contact your sales representative for excursions available.

(ID 5)

Day 8 El Calafate - El Calafate airport

After breakfast we take our transfer to El Calafate airport.

Lodging: None

Provided meals: Breakfast