Patagonia surganya para Adventurer !

Patagonia adalah wilayah geografis yang terdiri dari bagian paling selatan Amerika Selatan. Patagonia terletak di Argentina dan Chili. Nama Patagonia berasal dari kata patagón[1] yang digunakan oleh Magellan untuk mendeskripsikan penduduk asli yang diduga oleh ekspedisinya sebagai raksasa. Kini dipercaya bahwa Patagon adalah suku Tehuelche dengan rata-rata tinggi 1.80 m (~5'11") dibandingkan dengan rata-rata tinggi orang Spanyol saat itu, 1.55 m (~5'1").[2]

Rock Climbing
 A rock climber using the freestyle technique called bouldering takes on a sheer rock wall in Argentine Patagonia's Paso Superior. Patagonia's thousands of breathtaking Andean peaks attract mountaineers from novice to world class.

Kayaking
 Kayakers negotiate a massive iceberg calved by the glacier that feeds Lago Grey in Chile's Torres del Paine National Park. This spectacularly picturesque park is a designated World Biosphere Reserve located in far southwestern Chile.

Cero Torre
 A hiker climbs a rocky slope at the base of the jagged Cerro Torre Massif in the Patagonia region of southern Argentina. The sheer granite peak, so treacherous it was thought to be "unclimbable" until a team summitted it in 2005, rises more than 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) from the glacier at its base.

Torres del Paine
 A woman guides her horse through a wind-blown valley in Chilean Patagonia as the jagged, snow-clad towers of the Torres del Paine rise in the background. The rugged Paine range was formed when plateaus of granite were thrust upward by tectonic collisions, then carved away by ancient retreating glaciers.

Mountain Climber
 A mountain climber ascends the playfully nicknamed Fickle Finger of Fate summit, a rime-covered, spire-shaped peak in Chilean Patagonia's Cordillera Sarmiento.

Skier
 A skier glides past a fractured section of ice and snow in the Cordillera Sarmiento of Patagonia, Chile. This area is the highest point in the South American ice cap, a series of interconnected Andean glaciers that cover more than 5,000 square miles (13,000 square kilometers).

Garibaldi Fjord and Glacier
 Tourists board Zodiac boats to explore Chilean Tierra del Fuego's Garibaldi Fjord. The fjord was cut by the retreating Garibaldi Glacier, a towering wall of ice descending from the Darwin Range.

Cave
 A cautious caver descends a heavily eroded limestone wall on Madre de Dios Island in Chilean Patagonia. The island, located off the cold, wet coast of southern Chile, is made up of coral limestone laid down near the Equator some 300 million years ago and later thrust to the surface by tectonic forces.

Torres del Paine National Park
 Sunset casts a rosy glow over granite peaks encircling a glacial lake in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. Chile's prized jewel, the 598,000-acre (242,000-hectare) national park is a mosaic of landforms including soaring mountains, golden pampas, and grinding ice fields.

At the southern tip of South America, the region of Patagonia includes parts of Argentina and Chile.

Moreno Glacier
 Moreno Glacier rises above Lake Argentino as a rugged wall three miles (4.8 kilometers) wide and almost 200 feet (60 meters) tall. One of 47 massive ice fields in Argentine Patagonia's Glaciers National Park, this grinding, groaning force of nature covers a hundred square miles (260 square kilometers).

Andes Mountain Glacier
The snowy peaks of the Andes spawn thousands of gushing streams and waterfalls in Patagonia. From majestic mountains to trembling volcanoes, Patagonia remains the unspoiled frontier of South America.