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Peak Leaders Patagonia
Peak Leaders have over 7 years experience at running challenging gap year / time out programmes in the mountains of Patagonia. Excellent relations have been forged with the Andes Mountain Club Bariloche, who are providing guides and instructors to host a Gap Year challenge programme in Patagonia in 2008
The Challenge...
We are looking for 18-24 year olds, who want to combine 3 months travel in South America, adventure, friendship and fun in your Gap Year with
- A mountain expedition.
- Learning Spanish and how to plan and lead an expedition,
- Whitewater rafting, mountain biking, riding
- Community project
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The Course 7 Jan – 30 Mar 2008
In brief. Your 3 month Gap Year programme provides you with South America orientation, intensive Spanish Language training, a trans Andes expedition on foot, horseback where you learn to plan and lead similar expeditions, followed by a tough development project in rural communities and National Parks. Finally you will travel down through Patagonia by road to Tierra del Fuego returning by air to Buenos Aires and back London
More detail. You fly to Buenos Aires, visit Recoleta and La Bocca, then travel by coach to an Atlantic beach for team building followed by a visit to an estancia and onto Bariloche. You will be based initially at the el Retorno lodge on Lago Gutierrez where you will learn Spanish and be introduced to your project. Local guides will take you mountain biking and white water rafting in the Nahuel Huapi National Park. You will ride with gauchos. You will be taught how to plan and lead an expedition, then you go on an expedition in the Andes, trekking across a mountain pass into Chile. Your camp gear will be carried by pack horse.
There are a choice of projects (normally 4 weeks) – conservation work in the National Parks, restoration work on narrow gauge railway and building projects for the local community.
You finish off by travelling through Patagonia where you will see the Perito Moreno Glacier and listen to whales at the Valdes peninsula..
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What makes this course different?
Peak Leaders run professional courses aimed at delivering training, expeditions, travel and project work in some of the remotest and  most scenic parts of South America. You can learn spoken Spanish, get an Institute of Leadership and management award, find out a lot about yourself as you work in the local community, trek across the Andes into Chile and travel to Tierra del Fuego.
 Peak Leaders were established in 1998 and run courses globally. After three years of intense assessment, Peak Leaders UK Ltd gained membership of the exclusive "Year Out Group". There is a group leader with you 24/7to ensure your personal goals are met.
Flights are included.
Patagonia...
Although its name evokes the jagged Andes mountains, roaring rivers and crashing glaciers, Patagonia’s salient feature is its endless expanse of nothingness (Lonely Planet Guide). Routa quaranta (RN 40) which we travel along, parallels the Andes and remains an epic unpaved adventure passing the country’s most inaccessible places, the awesome Fitz Roy peaks and some archaeological gems. We will visit the Welsh settlement at Travelin.
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