Los Glaciares National Park & Patagonia

Los Glaciares National Park & Patagonia

A picture of the Cuernos del Paine mounts (Paine Horns, at left), part of the Paine small mountain group

 in the Torres del Paine National Park in the Chilean Patagonia

Monte Fitz Roy stands in Los Glaciares National Park in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

A view of El Chalten town, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

The Cuernos del Paine mounts in Torres del Paine National Park 

Monte Fitz Roy stands in Los Glaciares National Park in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

Monte Fitz Roy (right) stands in Los Glaciares National Park, part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.

Horses stand outside Los Glaciares National Park in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

The Serrano mountain capped by glaciers, in the Bernardo O’Higgins National Park in Chile

Serrano Glacier, in Bernardo O’Higgins National Park

Melting ice floats in front of the Northern wall of the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park  in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

The Spegazzini Glacier stands in Los Glaciares National Park in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

An iceberg broken off from a melting glacier floats in Lago Argentino, which holds runoff water from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field,

Perito Moreno Glacier stands above Lago Argentino

The Spegazzini glacier (left) and Heim glacier, part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field

The Serrano Glacier in Bernardo O’Higgins National Park

Ice cracks from the wall of the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park

Visitors take in a view of a glacier cave in the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, 

in southwest Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, 

Perito Moreno is one of 48 glaciers fed by the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in the Andes mountain range

People view Perito Moreno Glacier from a platform

Trekkers hike atop Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

People hike on Perito Moreno Glacier, part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, on November 30, 2015, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

A river with glacial runoff flows outside Los Glaciares National Park

The forest near Serrano Glacier in Chile’s Bernardo O’Higgins National Park

A Franca Austral whale (Southern right whale) swims near Puerto Piramides at Peninsula Valdes, 

in the Patagonian province of Chubut, Argentina

Three Guanacos (Lama guanicoe) camelids native to South America, near Puerto Natales and the Torres del Paine National Park

Magellanic penguins walk in single file at the El Pedral penguin colony near Punta Ninfas, in the Patagonian province of Chubut, Argentina

Horses run outside Los Glaciares National Park in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

A group of Rheas walk near Puerto Natales, in the Magellan Region, in the Chilean Patagonia