Fitz Roy Painting #2 Wood Print

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A print of an original acrylic painting of the Fitz Roy mountain in Patagonia, Argentina.

Monte Fitz Roy (also known as Cerro Chalt�n, Cerro Fitz Roy, or simply Mount Fitz Roy) is a mountain located near El Chalt�n village, in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in Patagonia, on the border between Argentina and Chile. First climbed in 1952 by French alpinists Lionel Terray and Guido Magnone, it remains among the most technically challenging mountains on Earth for mountaineers.

Monte Fitz Roy is the basis for the Patagonia clothing logo following Yvon Chouinard's ascent and subsequent film in 1968.



Francisco Moreno first saw the mountain on 2 March 1877. He named it Fitz Roy, in honour of Robert FitzRoy, who, as captain of the HMS Beagle had travelled up the Santa Cruz River in 1834 and charted large parts of the Patagonian coast.

Cerro is a Spanish word meaning hill, while Chalt�n comes from a Tehuelche (Aonikenk) wo...

THE FINEARTAMERICA WATERMARK WILL NOT APPEAR ON ANY ORDERED ARTWORK. I am a retired physician with a longstanding keen interest in photography. I have been photographing for many years and have taken a variety of courses. I continue to be and have been juried into many art shows and I have won many awards in various contests I have entered. I have had several works at the Collectors Corner gift shop at the Toledo Art Museum. I have pieces in several art galleries, offices and restaurants. The Chop House in Toledo and Real Seafood in Naples have many of my images. My photographs are all actual photographs some of which have been "altered by photopainting" or manipulated for special effects on the computer rather than in the darkroom...