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 16 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 42 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) and AIARE level 2 (American Institute for Avalanche Reserch & Education). He speaks English as well as French.

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

He has climbed mountains such as Cerro Mocho, Guillaumet, Saint Exupery, Aguja de la S, Lanín and Tronador and he has done more than 25 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 38 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 15 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 34 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 38 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 more than twenty 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.



Martin “Jimmy” Heredia
He is 36 years old a truly Patagonian climber and mountaineer. Jimmy is a fully-certified Mountain Guide by the UIAGM (Unione Internazionale di Asoc DI Guida DI Montagna), IFMGA (International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations) and the Argentinean Association of Mountain Guides (AAGM). He has been working as a mountain guide for more than ten years in the Andes from the Cordillera Blanca in Peru to his now home town of El Chalten in Patagonia. during the winter season he works as free ride ski guide in Northern Patagonia area both in Chile and Argentina volcanoes. He is also a ski instructor at the Youth Ski School of Club Andino Bariloche (CAB). He is an active member of the rescue mountain group of El Chalten (Fabio Stedille) and the Bariloche Search and Rescue Commission (CAB).

As a foreign language he speaks English and basic Italian. He has huge climbing experience, his most outstanding climbs have been the West face of Cerro Torre and Mount Fitz Roy at Patagonia and some high altitude ascents at the Cordillera Blanca in Peru. also several expeditions and ascents at the Patagonian Ice cap field.

Luciana Tessio

She is 36 years old, she is one of our mountain guide who lives in El Chalten and Bariloche. She is a fully certified Mountain guide by the Argentinean Association of Mountain Guides (AAGM), she has been ski patrol for 15 years with first degree at French scale and second degree at Argentine scale. She has worked as ski patrol in Andorra ski resorts and also at Catedral ski resort in Bariloche. She is a volunteer snow and weather observer.

She is a mountaineer and climber with several climbs in Patagonia, such us Cerro Mocho, Media Luna, Saint Exupery, Rafael, Mermoz and Guillaumet. She enjoys sport climbing in her spare time.

Max Schoffel
Max grew up exploring the mountains of the Bariloche area and decided early to dedicate his professional life to sharing the joys of Patagonia with others. Max graduated from high school in Canada and has since worked in New Hampshire, Alaska, the Swiss Alps, Costa Rica and throughout Western Canada. But he always comes back to his home in Patagonia, where he continues to guide North American and European guests. Because Max is comfortable in both South and North America, he can reveal many secrets.
Max is a fully-certified Mountain Guide by the Argentinean Association of Mountain Guides (AAGM), and has completed his training as a Tourism Guide specializing in Patagonia from a prestigious Bariloche university, and is an active member of the Bariloche Search and Rescue Commission. He loves climbing, paddling, skiing, hiking and just about any adventure in the outdoors.
Max speaks English, German and Spanish fluently and is also a keen naturalist with a passion for both the human history and the unique culture of his homeland. And his sense of adventure is infectious!

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