Almirante Nieto Mountain

Almirante Nieto is part of one of the most famous mountain groups in Patagonia and on Earth, the so called Paine Massif, in Torres Del Paine National Park, Chile. It reaches a height of 2.670 mt. Located in the southeast end of the massif, Almirante Nieto has two summits: an east summit, the highest, and a west summit, characterized by the great granite wall that it shows on its west face.

All of its face are different and make it seem a different mountain; from the East, its most well known face, just in front of the Laguna Amarga park entrance, it shows a pretty slim and and white shape, with a huge hanging glacier which comes down from the main summit to the Southeast. From the South, it presents itself as a black bulk of sedimentary rock with jagged spurs, crossed only by an enormous glacier which comes down practically from both summits and which, in the deep of its eroded walls, seems to be a huge frozen waterfall. From the west, a vertical orange granite wall has made this part of the peak one of the most photographed; on sunsets, specially in summer, it shines with yellow, orange and red tones. Finally, from the north, it is a strange sight; the granite walls get together with those of sedimentary rock and with the snow couloirs which go up between jagged ridges and turrets.
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