“We traveled the slope of a very high and steep hill (…) I call this hill, Mount Félix Frías in honor to my friend, the illuminated patriot who very heatedly defends the Argentine cause”.
Francisco Perito Moreno (Travel to Austral Patagonia)

Cerro Frías is 1095 meters high and it is shared by the estancias Alice and Cerro Buenos Aires. The Estancia Alice started in 1929 as passing point for the wagons transporting wool to Río Gallegos and, as history tells, there was a bar, nearby the Centinela River, where attention was provided to the occasional visitor.
The first owner of the estancia was a Spanish immigrant called García Braña, who named it Alice in honor to one of his daughters. In 1986, the original owner’s descendants sold the land to the current owner: Mr. Alejandro Barcena, a resident from El Calafate.
Estancia Alice started touristic activities in 1996 by the hand of a partnership formed by its owner and the company Waldron SA, which later created El Galpón del Glaciar SA offering services such as lodging, restaurant and rural tourism activities in the area where the estancia’s main building was located, on the Lago Argentino shore.
Barcena retires from the partnership in 2002. His son, also called Alejandro, starts then to work the Cerro Frias performing adventure tourism activities, taking advantage of the natural environment found at the mountain. Mr. Ricardo Cortes, from the town of Tres Arroyos, joins the partnership in 2004 in order to further define the ecotourism project.

Currently, Cerro Frías is a medium sized company with a very well known trajectory in the city of El Calafate. The Patagonian spirit and the magnificent landscape inspires the company and its entire staff, dedicated to share the area’s charm with each one of our visitors, committed to environmental care and to the sustainability of natural resources.