Patagonia Category
Patagonia Posts. For over 4 decades Tusker has led thousands of intrepid travelers on awe-inspiring adventures around the world.
Patagonia Trekking Seasons
If you love adventure trekking there is no more spectacular place on the planet than Patagonia. Don’t ask the question if you should go, but rather, when…
Patagonia’s Pinnacles of Pleasure & Pain
The Behemoths—Fitz Roy & Cerro Torre Standing a mere 11,020 feet, Mt. Fitz Roy is a goliath in the mountaineering world. It’s nearby brother Cerro Torre is a tad over 10,000 feet yet fewer than a dozen have ever climbed it. Much fewer climbers ascend Argentina’s Fitz Roy than they do Nepal’s Mt. Everest’s iconically […]
The Art of the Daypack
On Tusker treks around the world where porters, yaks or mules carry most of your stuff, there is a tendency to under-think your daypack, but that’s a potentially big mistake…
Total Eclipse: Chasing the Myths
From the ancients in Asia who thought a dragon had eaten the sun to today’s high tech chasers, total solar eclipses have made people curious, anxious, exuberant and crazy…
The Antikythera Mechanism
Imagine you are watching an old, silent movie with Charlie Chaplin starring. He walks down a street, wiggles his mustache, opens up his bag, and pulls out an iPad. “Wait!
