An Iconic run in the most beautiful mountains in South America. The Fitzroy Scamble is an almost 24 mile run through varied Patagonian Terrain. The route starts in El Chalten and initially proceeds up the Rio de las Vueltas valley before turning into the scenic portion of Los Glaciares National Park. At the turn you follow a glacial valley and slowly ascend into a Sub-Antartica Beech Forest which is very rare and biologically significant.

This informal outing is a circuit of the 40 tops of 400 metres or more that are named and identified by a separate contour ring on Harvey’s Howgill Fells map.  There are in fact 39 named tops but the distinctive spot height of 500 metres to the north-west of Docker Knott was added to make a round number!  

It was first completed by Tony Wimbush and Colin Brooke in April 1985 in 11-58 starting from the Cross Keys on the A683, north-east of Sedbergh. It covers over 60 km with some 3500 metres of ascent.