Torres del Paine Circuit
Fifteen days walking the full circuit — the Paine Grande and Grey glacier faces, the John Garner Pass and the French Valley — with a maximum of twelve travellers and a leader who has run the route eleven times. Refugios and two nights of supported camping. From £5,480 per person, land only, twin share.
On the record
- Duration
- 15 days
- Grade
- 4 of 7
- Group size
- Max 12
- Max altitude
- 1,241 m
- Single supplement
- £740
Figures are reviewed quarterly and verified by an independent third party. Full methodology available on request.
Before you hold a place
The £5,480 shown is per person, land only, twin share, based on twelve travellers. It includes your leader, all in-country transport, national park entry, refugio and camping fees and the meals listed day by day in the dossier. It excludes international flights, the Puerto Natales transfer if you arrive outside the group window, and tips.
A £600 deposit holds your place. The balance is due 70 days before departure. Cancellation charges run 70+ days: deposit only · 69–43 days: 40% · 42–29 days: 60% · 28–15 days: 80% · 14 days or fewer: 100%. The version of our Booking Conditions in force at the moment your deposit is taken is the version that governs your booking — currently v4.2, effective 1 June 2026.
Travel insurance is a condition of joining this trip. Your policy must cover a minimum of £2 million of emergency medical treatment and repatriation, trekking to 1,500 m, and trip cancellation to the full value of your booking. We ask for the insurer name and policy number 45 days before departure.
Price basis
Per person, land only, twin share. Single supplement £740. Prices held in GBP; no surcharge after balance payment.
Full pricing termsDeposit and balance
£600 deposit today, balance at 70 days. Cancellation charge scale by days-before-departure in full above and in the conditions.
Cancellation scalePassports, visas, vaccinations
Your responsibility. Chile requires a passport valid for the duration of stay. Check the current entry rules and advisory before you book.
FCDO travel adviceMinimum numbers
This departure runs on six travellers. If it has not reached six we tell you at least 90 days out and you choose a transfer, a credit or a full refund.
Minimum numbers clause- Financial protection, land only
- ABTOT bond 5401
- Financial protection, flight-inclusive
- ATOL 11482 (held in our own name)
- Booking conditions in force
- Version 4.2, effective 1 June 2026
- Operator
- Sixty North Expeditions Ltd, company number 08442617
The circuit, in the order you will walk it
Distances and ascent are measured from our own GPS tracks across the last four departures, not from the park literature. Open any day for the detail.
Day 1Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales
Group transfer at 14:00 from Punta Arenas airport, three hours north. Kit check and route briefing with your leader that evening, including the weather window and the pass forecast.
Travel day- Meals D
- Stay Hotel Costaustralis
- Walking none
Day 2Into the park — Laguna Amarga to Seron
Bus to the Laguna Amarga entrance and onto the quiet eastern side of the circuit. Open grassland along the Paine river with the towers behind you all afternoon.
5 hours- Meals B, L, D
- Stay Camp Seron
- Walking 13 km / 260 m ascent
Day 4John Garner Pass to Grey glacier
The hardest day of the trip and the reason it is graded 4. An early start for the pass, then a long descent on ladders and boardwalk with the Grey glacier opening out below you for two hours.
9 hours- Meals B, L, D
- Stay Refugio Grey
- Walking 18 km / 780 m ascent
Day 7French Valley
Day pack only. Up the valley to the Britanico lookout between the hanging glacier and the Cuernos, with a turnaround time set by your leader on the morning forecast.
7 hours- Meals B, L, D
- Stay Refugio Frances
- Walking 16 km / 620 m ascent
Day 9Base of the Towers, before dawn
A 03:30 start up the moraine to be at the lake for first light on the towers. It is the one morning we cannot promise you — roughly six departures in ten get a clear sunrise, and we tell you that before you book.
8 hours- Meals B, L, D
- Stay Refugio Chileno
- Walking 19 km / 900 m ascent
Day 15Puerto Natales to Punta Arenas
Group transfer back south, arriving at the airport by 13:00. We do not book you onto a flight before 15:30 and we will say so if you ask us to.
Travel day- Meals B
- Stay none
- Walking none
What the £5,480 covers, and what it does not
Written out in full so you can put it side by side with another operator quote without having to ring either of us.
Your leader and the local team
A Sixty North leader for all 15 days, a Chilean assistant guide from day 2, and the camp cook team. Guide to traveller ratio never worse than 1:6.
All in-country logistics
Airport transfers on the group days, park entry fees, all refugio and camping fees, the catamaran crossing, and every meal marked B, L or D in the day-by-day above.
Group safety equipment
Satellite communicator carried by the leader, a full expedition medical kit, emergency shelter and the tents and cooking kit for the two supported camping nights.
International flights
Not included, and we do not mark them up. Book them yourself, or ask us and we will sell them as part of an ATOL protected package under our own licence, ATOL 11482.
Travel insurance
Not included and mandatory. Minimum £2 million medical and repatriation cover, trekking to 1,500 m, cancellation to the full booking value. Policy number required 45 days out.
Single room, tips and personal spend
Single supplement £740 where a private room exists — the circuit has three dormitory nights where no single option is available. Tips are discretionary; we suggest £90 to £120 for the local team.
Six dates, and exactly what is left on each
Places shown are live. A place held online is held for 24 hours and nothing is charged until you pay.
£5,480 per person, land only, twin share. Single supplement £740. £600 deposit; balance at 70 days. Runs on a minimum of six travellers, confirmed to you no later than 90 days before departure. ABTOT bond 5401 for land-only arrangements; ATOL 11482 where we sell you flights.
The five things people ring us about
If your question is not here, call. We would rather spend ten minutes on the phone than have you arrive on a trip that was not right for you.
Still deciding?
Ask for the leader who runs this route. +44 20 7946 0388, 08:00–18:00 GMT Monday to Saturday.
trips@sixtynorth.exampleFrom the two most recent departures on this route
Nine of us on the circuit and Matías knew every warden by name, which is how we got beds at Grey when the pass closed a day early. The measured distances in the dossier matched my watch every single day.
Helen Vasquez
PAT-2603 · March 2026 · Trustpilot verified
We did not get the sunrise at the towers and nobody pretended we would. That honesty on the booking page is exactly why I picked them over two cheaper quotes, and it is why I have booked Kyrgyzstan for next August.
Daniel Whitcombe
PAT-2602 · February 2026 · Trustpilot verified
Hold a place free for 24 hours
We take the place off sale for a week while you check flights, dates and insurance. Nothing is charged and nothing is owed if you let it lapse.
Hold a place →Before you go any further
Flight-inclusive packages are ATOL protected under our own licence, ATOL 11482 — you receive your ATOL certificate by email the moment your deposit clears. Land-only arrangements are bonded with ABTOT under bond 5401. Every number above can be checked directly with the issuing body.