Towering peaks
Monte Fitz Roy or Cerro Chaltén (right) is a mountain in Patagonia, on the border between Argentina and Chile. Argentine explorer Francisco Moreno saw the mountain in 1877 and named it Fitz Roy in honour of Robert FitzRoy who, as captain of HMS Beagle, had charted large parts of the Patagonian coast. The natives called it Chaltén (smoking mountain), because a cloud usually forms around the mountain's peak. Aguja Poincenot is the tower on the left. The name remembers Jacques Poincenot, one of the members of the French expedition that climbed Fitz Roy in 1952. Poincenot died crossing the Fitz Roy river on the way to basecamp.
Towering peaks
Monte Fitz Roy or Cerro Chaltén (right) is a mountain in Patagonia, on the border between Argentina and Chile. Argentine explorer Francisco Moreno saw the mountain in 1877 and named it Fitz Roy in honour of Robert FitzRoy who, as captain of HMS Beagle, had charted large parts of the Patagonian coast. The natives called it Chaltén (smoking mountain), because a cloud usually forms around the mountain's peak. Aguja Poincenot is the tower on the left. The name remembers Jacques Poincenot, one of the members of the French expedition that climbed Fitz Roy in 1952. Poincenot died crossing the Fitz Roy river on the way to basecamp.