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8-hr (mostly easy) round trip from the town. There are outstanding views of the Mount Fitz Roy range along the way. The trail ends at the stunning cobalt-blue Laguna de los Tres, at the base of Mount Fitz Roy. The last 1.5 km of this hike are very steep and exposed to the elements and as a result some hikers choose to overnight at the nearby Campamento Poincenot prior to climbing the difficult last stretch however in good weather its no more than a hard slog uphill, in bad weather it would be very difficult perhaps even dangerous. A 500-m well-marked additional trail winds around to the left of Laguna de los Tres and leads to a spectacular, cliffside overview of Laguna Sucia, some 200 m below Laguna de los Tres. It is possible to shorten this walk somewhat by getting a transfer to Rio Electric (approx $18,000 as of 2026) and starting the walk from there, many walkers do this. A list of businesses offering transfers is available at the bus station.
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6 hr easy round trip that leads to a lake at the base of the dramatic Cerro Torre, which, although only 3,100 m tall, was not summited until 1975, a generation after all the more than 8,000-m Himalayan peaks had been conquered. Cerro Torre's near vertical walls and a permanent, unstable ice veneer at its summit defeated all earlier attempts.
This is the easy way, referred by most packaged tour tourists, but you will not see much of the glacier, only its end. A boat trip combined with a glacier trek on the Lago Viedma and the adjacent Glacier Viedma. No longer possible due to the receding glacier as of November 2023.