Mount Fitz Roy 6
by Timothy Hacker
Title
Mount Fitz Roy 6
Artist
Timothy Hacker
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Photograph - Photographs - Watermark Will Not Appear On Prints.
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A photo of the famed Fitz Roy Mountain in the El Cheltan area of Los Glaciares Park in Patagonia, Argentina. Monte Fitz Roy (also known as Cerro Chaltan, Cerro Fitz Roy, or simply Mount Fitz Roy) is a mountain located near El Chaltan 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 Chaltan comes from a Tehuelche (Aonikenk) word meaning "smoking mountain", due to a cloud that usually forms around the mountain's peak. Fitz Roy, however, was only one of a number of peaks the Tehuelche called Chaltan.
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January 6th, 2016
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Theresa Campbell
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