Multi-Day Trekking in Fitz Roy

The simplest way to get the most out of Los Glaciares is to take its classic day hikes and stitch them together to form one multi-day adventure that takes in the park’s most iconic scenery.

The El Chaltén Express takes the Laguna de Los Tres hike to Mount Fitzroy via the Piedra Blanca glacier and adds on the Laguna Torre hike to Cerro Torre, sleeping at the Poincenot campsite. This allows you to enjoy Laguna de Los Tres after the day hikers have left and a private sunrise over FitzRoy.

To extend the hike further, the El Chaltén Highlights trek starts with the hike to Loma del Diablo through the beautiful Huemules Reserve. After a night in a forest refugio, you transfer to the start of the Laguna de Los Tres hike for another two days on the trail, allowing you to tick off some of the most amazing sights that Los Glaciares has to offer.

One of the best treks for testing yourself against Los Glaciares's wildest landscapes is the Huemul Circuit.

Over four days it takes you along wide forested valleys, use ziplines to cross rushing rivers and climb the Viento Pass for astonishing views of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Wild camping along the way, you’ll hike past the enormous Tunél and Viedma glaciers, before descending to the lake its meltwater drains into and sleeping next to the perfectly-named Bay of Icebergs.

For those looking to mix things up a little, Swoop's Ultimate Chaltén Trek combines the classic day hikes around Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre with the Huemul Circuit into one massive hiking adventure. 

Explore the Southern Patagonian Field, the third largest ice cap in the world as it spills out of the mountains into Los Glaciares National Park. 

Over eight extraordinary days, this expedition-style trek takes you over extreme mountain passes to hike across the very surface of the ice cap. It’s a place of both extreme beauty and extreme weather conditions: our itinerary deliberately keeps two extra days in reserve to account for what a wild place the roof of Patagonia can be.

This is no walk in the park. Only experienced wilderness hikers should sign up, but those ready to meet the challenge will experience what is surely one of the greatest and remotest treks that Patagonia can offer.

Most of trekking action in Los Glaciares takes place around FitzRoy, but the southern section of the park also offers spectacular landscapes to explore entirely by yourself.

The Los Glaciares Wilderness Trek spends six days getting to know the remotest corners of the park between two historic estancias. The terrain is tough but it repays trekkers with a series of long days climbing mountain passes and above glacial lakes, each culminating in some truly wonderful wild camping locations.

Waking up next to the Norte hanging glacier, several days’ walk from the nearest road, is a truly special moment – one that the trek then goes on to top by wild camp at the almost endless Upsala glacier. By the trek's end you’ll be so remote that the only way back to civilization is by boat trip.