El Pilar to Lago Torre via Fitz Roy Lookout, Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Argentina
Fitz Roy: The Smoking Mountain.
The village of El Chaltén is so named because it means smoking mountain in the local Tehuelche language, a reference to the plume of cloud which is often seen rising from the tip of nearby Monte Fitz Roy, as seen here.
Photo: Alex Gordon
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