230 sources, independently verified

3.1 · Los Glaciares camping fee — ARS 30,000/night, not 15,000

a-forums.md and d-logistics.md each verified ARS 15,000 pp/night (Poincenot/Laguna Capri/De Agostini), citing the official reservation page plus secondary blogs. c-pros.md and e-lodging.md each verified ARS 30,000, citing the same official page on the same date. A fresh cross-check fetch of amigospnlosglaciares.org/campamentos/ settled it: the live page reads "Adultos $30.000 Por persona." official

Verdict: ARS 30,000/night is correct and current (Aug 2026): 15,000 was the Dec 2024 launch price, which e-lodging.md's own sourcing already flags. Use ARS 30,000 pp/night (~USD 20) for all camping budget math. Source: amigospnlosglaciares.org/campamentos/.

3.2 · TdP day-entry price — CLP 32,400/48,500, not 80,900

d-logistics.md and a-forums.md both fetched the live official pages (parquetorresdelpaine.cl/tarifas-y-horarios/, torresdelpaine.com), post-May-1-2026 go-live: CLP 32,400 single-day / 48,500 multi-day, foreign adult. c-pros.md, citing The Clinic's Dec 17, 2025 report of CONAF's pre-implementation announcement, sourced CLP 80,900, a claimed 76% pre-launch rise. A fresh cross-check re-fetch confirmed the live page still shows 32,400/48,500. official

Verdict: trust CLP 32,400 / 48,500: budget ~USD 33–53 pp, not ~USD 85. Per-sector (Base Torres/W/O) pricing remains genuinely unpublished anywhere any agent could find (a real gap, not a contradiction); see §4.

3.3 · Laguna de los Tres — plan for frozen, not turquoise

g-spring.md, via 3+ independent Tripadvisor threads, found the lake reported frozen until roughly Nov 15–20 (some years to Nov 30): this trip's Oct 28–Nov 5 window sits squarely inside that. a-forums.md and b-platforms.md separately cite an "~80% thawed" report, but that report's date (and a later one) both fall in the back half of November, after the frozen window, not inside this trip's dates. Not actually incompatible once dated precisely.

Verdict — the single highest-value expectation-setter in this research: budget the Fitz Roy sunrise shot as a white/gray ice-bowl composition, not the turquoise-lake postcard; treat any open water as a bonus from an unusually early thaw. corroborated

3.4 · Other cross-file consensus findings (not contradictions)

• Los Glaciares entrance fee, ARS 50,000/foreigner (eff. June 1, 2026, both sectors, single ticket): confirmed across a-forums, c-pros, d-logistics, e-lodging. corroborated
• "Mirador Los Cuernos" coordinate is mislabeled: it's the Salto Grande/Pudeto parking area (~85–150 m off), not the real viewpoint ~3–6 km further down the trail. Agreed by a-forums, b-platforms, c-pros, g-spring; effectively a refuted waypoint. corroborated
• Perito Moreno boardwalk hours (entry 08:00–18:00, permanence to 20:00, no sunrise/sunset access): reconciled across c-pros, d-logistics, f-conditions.
• Drone bans in both parks: consistent across a-forums, b-platforms, c-pros, g-spring, h-drone. Unresolved: specific outside-park boundaries, Chile's sub-750 g exemption, carried to §4.
• Wind severity: f-conditions and g-spring both softened to "very windy, building toward a Dec–Jan peak," not "the windiest month."

El Calafate ↔ Puerto Natales border route — distance, time, pavement

Three incompatible pictures: a ~265–286 km route with a gravel tail vs. a longer ~341–390 km route via La Esperanza; one first-hand account says "avoid Ruta 7," a professional overlander account says the opposite (Ruta 7 is the paved good road, Ruta 40 is brutal dirt). Up to a ~120 km / 1.5 h swing. unresolved

Next: live Google/Waze route check, plus a call to the rental agency about which road they route customers on, in the weeks before departure.

Chile: can a tourist legally fly a sub-750 g consumer drone at all?

Two secondary sources flatly contradict each other (one says the 750 g exemption applies only to foam/EPP drones, not standard plastic/carbon consumer drones; another frames it more permissively). The DAN 151 Ed.4 primary regulation text is a real, live official PDF no tool used could extract as text. unresolved

Next: email pplasser@dgac.gob.cl / +56 2 2439 2692 (DGAC Airworthiness) before deciding which drone(s) travel to the Chile leg.

TdP per-sector ticket prices & caps (Base Torres / W / O / day-access)

Only the blanket single-day (CLP 32,400) / multi-day (CLP 48,500) figures are published anywhere across all eight files. Category-specific pricing, and whether the O Circuit's daily quota differs from Base Torres/W access, isn't in a clean table from CONAF or pasesparques.cl.

Next: run a dry-run checkout on pasesparques.cl closer to departure to see real per-sector prices and caps.

Pudeto ↔ Paine Grande catamaran, Oct–Nov 2026 sailing frequency

Three independent agents (d-logistics, f-conditions, g-spring) each hit the same unrendered catamaranpehoe.com/precios-y-horarios template: no schedule data retrievable by any tool used. A real scheduling risk for any Mirador Británico/French Valley day plan, not just a research gap.

Next: email reservas@catamaranpehoe.com directly before finalizing which TdP day includes Británico.

Ruta 23 pullout / Laguna Amarga steppe — actual park-boundary polygon

Duane's "outside-park, therefore drone-legal" claims for these specific spots are plausible but unconfirmed: no GIS/official park-boundary map source was found or fetchable by any agent.

Next: check a Gaia GPS or OSM boundary-polygon layer on the ground before flying anywhere not visually and obviously outside a park entrance gate. Default to grounded.

Laguna Amarga gate opening hour — 07:00 vs. 08:30

Sources conflict; no primary CONAF hours-by-gate table was found (e-lodging, f-conditions). One cited page's 08:30–20:30 figure applies only to the Laguna Azul/Sarmiento gates, not Amarga.

Next: confirm directly with CONAF / torres-del-paine.com before finalizing the Base Torres day-trip-vs-Chileno-night decision.