Glaciar Travel Courses Tour

offered by supplier M19096 (read about supplier)

Key Information:
Tour Duration: 2 - 9 day(s)
Group Size: 2 - 8 people
Destination(s): Argentina Chile
Specialty Categories: Mountain/Rock Climbing
Season: December - April
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: No
Minimum Per Person Price: 500 US Dollar (USD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 2000 US Dollar (USD)

Volcano Tronador is without doubts the best area of Northern Patagonia to improve mountaineering skills crevasse rescue and glacier travel technique. Using the Meiling Hut as base camp (1950 m.o.s.l.) we only need to walk a few minutes to get on the ice of the glacier. Tronador counts with 3 summits that makes of this beautiful mountain an ideal terrain to develop the technique of every mountaineer. Level: beginners/advanced. Glacier travel technique, ice climbing, crevasse rescue and self rescue technique, training for alpine ascensions. Location: Tronador is situated in Northern Patagonia, lake district, at 90 km from the city of San Carlos de Bariloche. Meiling Hut, situated at 1950 m.o.s.l is surrounded by the Castaño Overo and Alerce glaciers. How to get: 4 a 5 hours trek from Pampa Linda (base of Tronador). Vertical drop 1000 meters.

Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.

Supplier Information

Location: Argentina
Joined InfoHub: Jan 2009
Client Request Served: 9

Walter Rossini, M19096 director, has more than 15 years of mountaineering and 10 years guiding in Patagonia. Walter is the director in charge of the IFMGA courses in Argentina. He climbed Cerro Torre, Mount Fitz Roy and many other difficult mountains of Patagonia. All our guides have a big passion about mountaineering...

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