And then came the question of lodging.
the visionaries
Enter Nardo and Luis—two young dreamers with backgrounds in highline (high-altitude balancing) and a passion for untapped niches. Their unlikely partnership with the ranch birthed OVO Patagonia.
Over three years, they collaborated with a team of architects, engineers, surveyors, geomechanics experts, riggers, mountain athletes, and rescuers to design and build four 200-square-foot pods in a Buenos Aires warehouse.
These pods were then trucked 1,400 miles through rugged terrain, crossing rivers and mountains to reach the property.
Their installation was as breathtaking as the location itself: a meticulously engineered three-stage elevator system transferred each pod safely to its cliffside perch, even when temperatures plunged to 10ºF and winds blasted the cliff at 70 mph.
The safety system features two independent tensile structures, 9 anchor points each (tested to 35 tons), and a 126× safety margin. Seems pretty safe (but my stomach still sinks).
