Mount Fitzroy beauty

We took a 3 hour bus to El Chalten and decided to stay for a few days. It's low season, so the hostel and bus company were offering a whoppa deal for 2 nights which was too good to turn down. We had contemplated camping, however we were glad to have been in the comfort of the hostel after hearing the howling winds that came through the valley at night.
El Chalten is a small town in a valley surrounded by mountains and appears to be growing at a phenomenal rate - 10 years ago 3000 people visited the national park, this year over 100,000 people visited!! After exploring the area it's really not surprising, as the treks and the views were awesome. On the first day we did a couple of treks to lakes and through forests and on the second day we trekked to Lago Torre, a lake with icebergs floating in it and Glaciar Grande in the distance. It was truly a postcard view, and utterly freezing! We whipped out our little camp stove and cooked up noodles to warm up, and filled up our water bottles straight out of the glacial lake. Bliss.