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WALKING TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

PATAGONIA is well documented as a top hiking destination, but most of the coverage you’ll see is around Torres del Paine NP and Los Glaciares NP in Chile and Argentina respectively. While these excellent circuits are generally considered to be pretty far south, and they certainly feel like it on a cold night, they are actually only roughly half way between the Equator and the South Pole. There is a whole lot more rugged and less explored territory even further into the high latitudes. Great Walks donned its thermals and went to investigate some of the best hiking at the ends of the earth.

Tierra del Fuego National Park

Just outside the Argentine city of Ushuaia, heavily marketed as the ‘Southernmost city in the world’, is the national park named for the island on which both are found. Tierra del Fuego or the ‘Land of Fire’ was

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