Trek
The W Trek
5 days · From $1,950
Torres del Paine · Refugios
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Overview
Patagonia is the end of the world, and it feels like it. Granite towers rise three thousand metres out of turquoise lakes; glaciers calve into the water; the wind never quite stops asking you questions.
This is a place for the long walk. You hike through lenga forests, over moraine, and stand finally at the foot of something that makes every problem back home look small. The reward is perspective.
"The mountains do not care who you are. That, strangely, is the relief."
— Our trekking editor
Go in the shoulder season and you may have the trails, and the wind, entirely to yourself.
Experiences here
Three ways to meet the coast on its own terms.
Practical
November to March, when the southern hemisphere summer opens the trails.
Fierce and changeable. Four seasons in a day is not a metaphor here — pack for all of them.
Fly to Punta Arenas or El Calafate, then overland. Distances are real; plan them.
Demanding. The walking is the point, and it asks for reasonable fitness.
Explore the experiences or tell us what slow looks like for you.
