About us: Patagonia Mágica

Patagonia Magica has started as a mountain guiding company in a wonderful small corner of the Andean range, a place where the wind plays with the landscape, where the forest has a special atractive, where the mountain has a magical beauty. We are located right there where all the mountaineering, climbing and trekking activities begin in the Fitz Roy - cerro Torre area by the South Patagonian ice cap.

Patagonia Mágica have been developing its activity for more than 10 years in El Chalten, a place well known for it's natural beauties and for being the most popular trekking place in Argentina, where with love and respect for nature we started our excursions. After many years traveling and climbing around the world, and guiding in different places of the country, we offer you the best adventure in South Patagonia.

We are dedicated to preserving the culture and wilderness of Patagonia through low impact travel. We always form small groups for our activities in order to provide a more personalized service in mountain guiding but also to minimize impact on natural envirorments of the Los Glaciares National Park.. We also pack out all our garbage.

Our company's main goal is to give you the best outdoor experience, helping in the natural enviroment and ensuring safety in the expedition.

The Patagonia Mágica Team:

Patagonia Magica gathered a group of mountain guides specialized in the extreme conditions of South Patagonia. They all manage perfectly in the rough climate conditions of the place, taking determinate decisions when bad weather shows. All our guides are highly trained professionals and experts in the field, excellent climbers and mountaneers, with differnt summits and expeditions achieved, in Patagonia and around the world. They all speak fluent English, as well as Spanish and other languages. They are certificated by the Argentinian Mountain Guides Association and trained in backcountry emergencies "Wilderness First Responder". Patagonia is for most of our guides, home, therefore, we are familiar with the field in which we move. Glaciers, forest, rivers and trails are our daily routes.

Our guides provide the best possible combination of leadership, safety, skills, and knowledge of the area to make each trip a safe yet challenging adventure, taking into account the comfort level of individuals on every trip.


Marcelo Fayer
He is 38 years old, director & head mountain guide of Patagonia Mágica, (AAGM - Argentine Asociation of Mountain Guides certified), founder and rock climbing instructor of the Argentinean sport climbing association (AADED), member of the El Chalten rescue team and the Alpine Club. He is a ski instructor with international level certified by the Argentine Ski Asocciation (AADIDE). He speaks English as well as French.

He has been working, climbing and living in Patagonia for fourteen years. He has worked for several national and international trekking and mountaineering companies.

He has climbed mountains such as Cerro Mocho, Guillaumet, Aguja de la S, Lanín and Tronador and he has done more than 18 expeditions to the Patagonian ice cap field in Argentina.

For the last several years he has been intensely ski touring in Northern and Southern Patagonia. In Southern Patagonia, in the Chaltén area, he has been glacier skiing in the Fitz Roy range surroundings as well as cerro Vespigniani and Madsen. Exploring and ski touring also the Marconi, Superior and Viedma Glaciers. He has done backcountry ski trips and expeditions to mostly all the volcanoes in Northern Patagonia, both in Chile and Argentina, among them volcano Puyehue, Lonquimay, Llaima and Villarica. Every winter season he goes off piste skiing in the Bariloche surroundings, ski touring to the mountain huts for several days in a row each trip. He has climbed El Capitan in Yosemite, USA as well as several climbs in the Alps and South America.

Spare time: sport climbing, free skiing and mountain biking.


Vicente Labate
He is 34 years old. He studied geography in the University of Lujan (U.N. Lujan) and he is a mountain guide (AAGM certified) since 1994. He has been working as a guide for ten years in Patagonia. Beside studying, he climbs and works with different mountain disciplines.

He is an adventurous traveler who is always seeking for different challenges (on foot, by bike, canoeing, kayaking, yachting or horse riding). He lives in El Chalten most of the year. As a foreign language he speaks English and Italian. He has climbed mountains in Europe, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil and Chile.

Spare time: slack line, bouldering, cooking and photographing. Spare time: rock climbing, skiing, mountain biking and guitar.





Gerardo "Boti" Spisso
He is 30 years old, born in Buenos Aires, he is the Camp Manager & Logistics. Mountanier with several climbs in Patagonia, such us Cerro Gorra Blanca, also many expeditions in the Ice Field, Volcan Lanin in Neuquen, Volcan Casablanca and Puyehue in Chile. He lives at El Chalten since 1998.

Spare Time: Mountain Biking, Touring Skiing, Fly Fishing and Cooking.





Alessandro "Tano" Masperi:
He is 34 years old, born in Trieste (Italy) but raised in Bariloche where he learnt about the mountain sports and skiing. He started his mountain and ski education at the Youth School of the Club Andino Bariloche (Bariloche Andinist club), pioneer institution in mountaineering at South American level. He graduated as National Ski instructor in 1994 and as mountain guide in 2000. He has been working for 15 years in different mountain activities and tourism in the Patagonia region. In winter season he works as ski instructor and backcountry ski guide in the surrounding area of Bariloche as well as other regions of Argentina and Chile. During the spring and summer season he works as a mountain guide at South Patagonia, mainly Los Glaciares national park.

Spare Time: trekking, backcountry skiing, ice climbing, mountaineering ascents and traverses.

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