Is El Calafate in Chile or Argentina?
El Calafate is a city in Patagonia, Argentina. It is situated on the southern border of Lake Argentino, in the southwest part of the Santa Cruz Province, about 320 kilometres (200 mi) northwest of Río Gallegos.
Where is Cerro Torre?
It is located in a region which is disputed between Argentina and Chile, west of Fitz Roy (also known as Cerro Chaltén). The peak is the highest of a four mountain chain: the other peaks are Torre Egger (2,685 m (8,809 ft)), Punta Herron, and Cerro Standhardt.
What is El Calafate known for?
Named after the local Calafate berry, El Calafate is the gateway to Los Glaciares National Park. Legend has it that eating one of the berries will guarantee your return to Patagonia, but in case you don’t manage to find one, here are our top tips for seeing the best of the surroundings in just a few days.
What is the Calafate?
Calafate is a shrub native to Patagonia, and has always been used by the people living there, by colonists as well as natives. Calafate, also known as michay, is a small round fruit which assumes a purple color when ripe. The pulp is sweet and sour, with tiny seeds.
Is El Cerro Torre a popular peak for explorers to climb?
The weather in Southern Patagonia has been the key failure of mountaineering during all these years, wanting to face these conditions makes Cerro Torre an extremely dangerous adventure for anyone who dares to try it. It was considered by the early explorers as an impossible mountain.
Where is the Cerro Torre mountain in Argentina?
Cerro Torre is located in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares in the Patagonia Region of Argentina.
What’s the weather like on the top of Cerro Torre?
The weather on Cerro Torre is very bad with the 7000 foot south face seeming to have the worst weather. Often the top of Cerro Torre is covered in a crown of rime ice and some climbers have been known to call it a day just below this crown because of the difficulty of climbing the often over hanging ice.
How long did it take to summit Cerro Torre?
They took a week to summit Cerro Torre, which had taken the Italian group two months to summit. In 1980, Bill Denz (New Zealand) attempted the first solo of the Compressor Route. Over a five-month period, he made 13 concerted attempts but was driven back by storms on every occasion.
How did Toni Egger get to the top of Cerro Torre?
The top of the mountain often has a mushroom of rime ice, formed by the constant strong winds, increasing the difficulty of reaching the actual summit. Cesare Maestri claimed in 1959 that he and Toni Egger had reached the summit and that Egger had been swept to his death by an avalanche while they were descending.