Andes Mountains

There is a saying at the bottom of the world that, if you want to experience all four seasons in Patagonia, you have to spend the day. I have already spent several years by that yardstick holed up in the windsocks that pass for tents here. I've been waiting for a break in the blitzing skies for a rematch with Mt. Fitzroy, a monolith of stone and ice whose jagged profile is an emblem of vertical adventure.