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well good morning world greetings from el chalten  patagonia argentina paradise over here paradise  

oh my gosh we woke up and it's hardly a cloud in  the sky the sun is out we had our first glimpse  

of mount fitz roy my goodness it looks magical yes  even from the town the views of it from the town  

are magical and we were walking towards it today  yeah the plan is to get even closer to cerro fitz  

roy so we know for sure we're gonna hike to laguna  capri mirador de fitz roy and maybe maybe if we  

are feeling super ambitious laguna de los tres  but that would be like an eight-hour hike with  

no distractions yeah and we're going to be very  distracted with our cameras so we'll see we'll see  

but i mean anyways the the place that we're  going for sure is going to have incredible  

views like that's when we were looking at our  trail guide they said amazing views of fitz roy  

and i'm already seeing amazing views if it's  right from the town so i mean i just can't  

wait to get going let's get hiking this is me  and my happy place trekking in patagonia guys  

doesn't get better than this we started  the morning with breakfast at our hotel  

since this is a major trekking destination  most accommodations start serving breakfast  

around six in the morning so that trekkers can  be on their way and you've gotta love those long  

patagonian summer days i couldn't believe  how bright it was so early in the morning  

also don't make the newbie mistake we did  and forget your trail map on the nightstand  

it took us a while to find the trailhead as a  result but just so you know you need to walk  

north along san martin until you reach the  very end of town where you'll see signage

first stop 20 minutes in someone has already eaten

they're lucky we didn't we didn't show  it but i was having most of my lunch  

i'll have to show what you have in your lunchbox  when it's actually lunch time and just so that  

people know what time is it now when you've  already consumed your whole lunch it's only  

nine i just had fruit this morning i'm like we've  already been walking for over an hour i'm like  

i'm hungry i'm gonna have my sandwich and i did we  have made it to our first lookout point of the day  

it's called mirador rio de las voltas the river of  the turns because it's kind of curvy it's like an  

s-shaped river that winds through the valley  the views here are just unbelievable yeah this  

is like everyone is taking the chance to stop  here so it's really cool you just sit down and  

i had a bit of a lunge already almost  his whole lunch what was my whole lunch  

oh man i'm greedy what can i say but um yeah it's  what we've realized is that just to get to this  

trail took us almost 45 minutes didn't it yeah  we're in the opposite end of town so yeah it was  

45 minutes to get here we made a wrong turn along  the way i think that's right yeah and then what we  

did we've done about a half an hour of tracking  so i'd say to the lagoon we're probably about  

a quarter of the way i would imagine we'll  see we'll see we have no idea to be honest

one thing i liked about trekking in el chalten  argentina is that you have markers at every  

kilometer so that kind of gives you an idea of  what kind of progress you're making on your hike  

if you see you're making good time and it's still  early in the day you can combine your hike with an  

additional side trail and if you see that you're  struggling well at least you know how long it'll  

take to get back into town another little  stop guys because we just saw three condors  

circling above our heads they are majestic  let's see if we can show them to you

it is lunch time for me i'm getting hungry  

so i ordered the rice salad  with carrots egg coleslaw tomato  

that's what i'll be eating what else do you have  in the lunch boxes i also have yoda show it all  

an apple yep there's uh the healthiest  thing probably oh the salad too cannoli bar  

a granola bar you're gonna like that muffin oh  yeah a little muffy and a whole bunch of candies  

and some candies yes so that's pretty  good yeah how's that salad very good yeah

it's got big chunks of cheese lots of egg also  my bowl broke on the hike up so i really need to  

eat it otherwise i'm eating a salad in my bag yeah  well it's a nice place we found a nice shaded area  

i think we're close to kilometer  three and we've worked up an appetite

just so you know most hotels and guest houses in  el chalten patagonia offer some kind of lunch box  

this is super convenient for hikers who plan on  spending most of the day trekking in the mountains  

you typically have to place your order the  night before and then your food is ready the  

following morning we paid the equivalent of 10 us  dollars per lunch box a bit pricey for argentina  

but it was convenient seeing as there was no mini  fridge or communal kitchen where we were staying  

all right guys so just slightly after a  kilometer three there's a fork in the road  

so you have a choice of going to the right which  takes you to a mirror door but then if you head  

to the left which is what we're doing you can  go to the other laguna we're going to capri  

yes so there's also a campsite there and then  you can do a loop and continue towards the  

mirador and come back yeah so we're basically  just gonna be doing a full circle and um  

that's gonna be probably our best view if  it's roy today so super pumped about it

well hello welcome to paradise we are at  laguna capri yeah this is where you get  

the most epic monumental view of cerro fitz roy  mount fitz roy and guys it's i don't even know  

what to say it's speechless so majestic that  it almost doesn't look real it almost looks  

like i'm seeing cgi but it's not it's probably  the most magnificent mountain i've ever seen  

i kid you not it's just wow and  there's something to show us  

recognize something do you recognize  do you recognize something like this  

somewhat familiar right here yeah is it that it  may just it may just be that it may just be that

um we reached camp here at laguna capri we're  not camping but like it's a campsite they have  

a toilet it's more like an outhouse yeah so  yeah used the facilities and now a little snack  

my muffin a little morsel of muffin it's a  little mini muffin muffin bite we still haven't  

got all of our left and we have apples now we're  gonna continue to look up into the middle order  

more views of fitz roy mountain.

so

once we reached the campground at  laguna capri we had two options  

head back to town via the mirador loop  or continue towards laguna de los tres  

we knew the latter would be a long trek and we  had also been warned that the final kilometer  

is pretty brutal but we had come all the way here  and it was too early to turn around so we decided  

to go for it we had mount fitz roy right in  front of us calling our name how could we say no

do well guys we are going for it we're gonna  go for it we're gonna no we are going to we're  

not gonna we are today we are truckers we are  trekkers and we are gonna go to the three la  

the tres lagos there you go we're going yeah  we were kind of on the fence for a while but  

then we got to the point where we would have  had to turn around to start going back to the  

mirador and checked in yeah and we're like  we're not even tired it's early in the day  

why would we turn back so soon exactly so we are  continuing we are now at kilometer eight out of  

ten now apparently it's gonna get really steep at  some point and challenging i think actually in the  

next half kilometer but um you know what we've  we're making great time we have just past 12.  

and i mean sunset is until close to 10  p.m so we've got all the time in the world  

there you go we're just gonna we're gonna go for  it we're gonna do it we're taking you all the way

kilometer nine here began the longest and toughest  kilometer of the whole trek up until this point we  

really hadn't found the trail to be difficult  but this is where we encountered the bottleneck  

everyone was tired by this point and well this  is the part of the trail where you need to be  

the most alert because it gets rocky a bit  gravelly at times and it's just really steep  

trekking poles would have been a good idea really  what kept us going was the encouragement from  

everyone hiking back down telling us how amazing  the views were at the top and they were not wrong

so this is

how do you feel exhausted we're so  close so so close so let's push on

behold laguna de los tres with  its beautiful cerulean waters and  

blissful views of mount fitz  roy this is what we came for

it was windy beyond belief and we were also  ravenous at this point so we sat behind a rock  

to shield ourselves from the wind and devoured  what little food we had left in our lunch boxes  

just one granola bar and some candy  and so after catching our breath began  

the long descent and the trek back  to el chalten patagonia argentina.

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the track to fitz roy and laguna de los tres  greetings from the future from the far future  

three days ahead yeah that was quite the hike  guys we ended up needing a break from hiking  

from filming from life from everything after  walking 20 plus kilometers i'll just say the day  

after was an absolute write-off yeah we just  didn't really leave the hotel no i think just  

for food i hardly left the room i hardly left  the room we were both so stiff i think we slept  

10 or 12 hours too yeah we had a really long  sleep yeah amazing hike though i mean i think it's  

maybe i'm just thinking off the top of my head  maybe the coolest hike we've ever done it was  

worth it like it was way out of her element way  out of our league out of our fitness level but  

we're really glad we pushed ourselves because  the views at the end like that lagoon waiting  

for us was incredible astonishing and yeah the  the various viewpoints along the whole trail were  

incredible too even if you just got to the first  lagoona it's amazing what you see of fitz roy yes  

but that's definitely a hike that i mean the first  the first nine kilometers they say is intermediate  

like you have to be reasonably fit and then the  the last kilometer is where it really tests you  

and we saw people of all ages doing it but the  thing is like unless you're a regular hiker or  

maybe like you've been jogging or you've been  training your legs you're gonna feel the the  

tightness after after that and i remember  on the way back we were we were just spent  

like like that that kilometer up and down it felt  like it was more strenuous than the the first nine  

kilometers combined like there were points where  i was fantasizing like what would it be like to  

be carried out on a sedan chair right now oh my  gosh what would happen if we called the emergency  

number we can't make it back come and get it air  lifted out of there oh my god the way back was was  

a struggle we were we were like we kind of put the  cameras down and we were just like we were taking  

we were taking breaks not out of convenience but  out of either soreness or exhaustion there were  

times where just like oh i can't i can't move my  legs right now or i remember that our feet were  

really aching too that was the big thing just  throbbing just robbing but we made it back into  

town and we discovered a really nice restaurant  yeah it's a bit of a hidden gem it's um it's off  

of the main street where most of the the bars  and restaurants are yeah it's actually near the  

bus terminal and it is called senderos and it's  a restaurant inside of a high-end guest house  

yes like when we walked in there they were  kind of surprised like are you staying here  

yeah no but we saw people eating and they're like  okay come in it's cool it's cool um but yeah the  

food was really good yeah now that you've  mentioned that how many tables would you say  

they're like six or seven yeah it's very small  it's very small small boutique boutique hotel  

gourmet food delicious delicious food we ended  up i ended up getting a blue cheese risotto with  

walnuts oh that was so good sun-dried tomatoes and  then you had a stew i think i got the lint it was  

a lentil casserole with veggies i was just craving  something hearty and i love lentils and that was  

good as well yeah we had red wine um it was she  bottom full bottle shira we didn't have malt back  

we actually uh we took a break from malbec  and we had a different varietal it was really  

really good and then we had two desserts yes  decadent i got the chocolate mousse yes and i  

got the pancake de manzana which is that apple  pancake so um yeah i mean just a fantastic meal  

and then basically we waddled back here  and passed out we were in bed by eight  

eight thirty yeah like that was the end of the  day and then we woke up the next day at around