Upon arriving at El Chaltén, the ragged range edging the horizon immediately catches your eye, especially two high spires stretching skyward: Cerro Torre and Cerro FitzRoy. Many peaks frame El Chaltén, and each has its name and history. From far left, they are:

Cordón de las Adelas (2825 m / 9268 ft) – named for the mother of Alfred Kölliker who led the first exhaustive expedition of the Campo de Hielo in 1915.
Cerro Torre (3102 m / 10,177 ft) – Francisco “Perito” Moreno named this peak, likening it to a tower.
Aguja Egger (2900 m / 9514 ft) – in memory of Tony Egger who died during the 1959 attempt on Cerro Torre.
Aguja Standhardt (2800 m / 9186 ft) – named for the German photographer who lived in the zone and pictorially documented the region until his death in the 1960s.
Techado Negro (2152 m / 7060 ft) – Louis Lliboutry named the mountain for its shape and color.
Aguja Saint Exupery (2558 m / 8392 ft) – honoring Antoine Saint-Exupéry who, besides being the author of The Little Prince flew over the Andes, establishing the first postal connection between Buenos Aires and Punta Arenas together with Mermoz and Guillaumet; Saint-Exupéry also served as director of Aéropostale Argentina 1929-1931.
Aguja Rafael Suárez (2482 m / 8143 ft) – also called Innominata, this peak is named for a young Argentine climber who disappeared during the ascent of Cerro Adela in 1974.
Cerro FitzRoy (3405 m / 11,171 ft) – the Aónikenk called this Chaltén, the mountain that smokes, but Perito Moreno named it in honor of Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS The Beagle.
Aguja Poincenot (3002 m / 9849 ft) – memorializing Jacques Poincenot, a member of the 1952 expedition that made the first successful ascent of FitzRoy, who died while crosssing the Río FitzRoy.
Aguja Val Biois (2492 m / 8176 ft) – Bruno de Dona named it for a valley in his home Italian province Belluno.
Agujas Guillaumet (2579 m / 8461 ft) and Mermoz (2732 m / 8963 ft) – names Lliboutry gave these twin mounts to honor French Aéropostale pilots Henri Guillaumet and Jean Mermoz.

Permission must be obtained from APN in order to climb any of these peaks.