Friday, 23 October 2026
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Everything about patagonia on Altavia: 5 articles including news, guides, routes and features.
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Not all dangerous mountains are dangerous for the same reason. Some kill with avalanches, others with altitude, unpredictable weather or because they look easier than they are. Fifteen summits and their reasons.
You do not need to be a mountaineer to walk beside glaciers, peer into a fjord or circle the Tre Cime di Lavaredo. Ten routes any hiker with reasonable fitness and common sense can do.
Some rise on a glacier in Tibet, others at a lost spring in the Andes whose title two mountains dispute. Ten rivers that are still wild, told from their source.
There are still corners of the planet where human presence is minimal and natural processes set the pace: active volcanoes, deltas in the middle of the desert, immense ice fields and rainforests still to be explored.
Glaciers, turquoise lakes and the three granite towers at sunrise. The W is one of the most spectacular treks in the world, but you need to book well in advance and respect the Patagonian wind.
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