Abstract
This work makes visible some of the disputes around the discursive-territorial construction that mountaineering recreates in a specific geographical enclave, Lake Nahuel Huapi in Patagonia (Argentina). It also analyzes the ways in which power relations and inequalities are intertwined in this process of shaping histories, subjectivities and identities in a region with a Mapuche population, pre-existing to the current state organization. The hypothesis infers that mountaineering practices reproduce an official history of only a part of the population, while omitting and making invisible the knowledge, wisdom and histories of the subordinate cultures and populations involved, such as the Mapuche ethnicity. At the same time, it is recreated as an innocuous and harmless activity behind the global industry of tourism. The territorial discursive construction processes derived from mountaineering are analyzed. Relationships and operating processes due to the installation of mountaineering as a practice linked to tourism are reconstructed, in a dynamic that articulates local and global.  
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