Lago Pollone reflects Cerro Fitz Roy & Aguja Pollone. El Chalten, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Patagonia, South America.
Lago Pollone reflects Cerro Fitz Roy & Aguja Pollone, near El Chalten, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Patagonia, South America. We hiked the scenic Rio Electrico Valley to Refugio Piedra del Fraile ("Stone of the Friar", 14.5 km round trip). From the refuge, a rewarding day hike visits Lago Pollone (8.5 km round trip with 320 m gain). Monte Fitz Roy is also known as Cerro Chaltén, Cerro Fitz Roy, or Mount Fitz Roy. The first Europeans recorded as seeing Mount Fitz Roy were the Spanish explorer Antonio de Viedma and his companions, who in 1783 reached the shores of Viedma Lake. In 1877, Argentine explorer Francisco Moreno saw the mountain and named it Fitz Roy in honour of Robert FitzRoy who, as captain of HMS Beagle, had travelled up the Santa Cruz River in 1834 and charted large parts of the Patagonian coast. Mt Fitz Roy was first climbed in 1952. Cerro is a Spanish word meaning hill, while Chaltén comes from a Tehuelche word meaning "smoking mountain", due to clouds that usually form around the peak. This image was stitched from multiple overlapping photos.
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