For years, when I looked at photos of Cerro Torre's snowy crown and steep vertical walls, I didn't just see one of the most iconic alpine objectives on earth: I saw the perfect mountain to fly off.

Today is the 66th anniversary of the disputed -- many would say discredited -- first ascent of Patagonia's Cerro Torre by Cesare Maestri and Toni Egger. The undisputed first ascent came many years ...

The Cerro Torre in Patagonia is one of the most iconic, beautiful, but also most difficult peaks to climb in the world. In 2008 Austrian alpinist David Lama set a bold goal – he wanted to freeclimb ...

The kid wouldn’t let up. First, an email. Not just one email, either. Then phone calls. “C’mon duder, you’ve got nothing better to do,” Colin Haley said into the phone. I took another swig off my ...

Fresh news from Patagonia: new routes on Fitz Roy (Flavio Daflon, Sergio Tartari and Luciano Fiorenza) and Aguja de l’S (Josh Huckaby and Mikey Schaefer); The Corkscrew on Cerro Torre climbed by Colin ...

The Patagonian mountain Cerro Torre is considered one of the world's hardest climbs. How alpinists reach its summit is a source of fierce debate in the climbing community. Kelly Cordes climbed Cerro ...

On Jan. 27 two climbing teams completed separate, parallel new routes on Cerro Torre — an ice-frosted needle of rock, a “shriek turned to stone,” in the words of Reinhold Messner — a peak in Argentine ...

The petition, promoted by Rolando Garibotti, concerning the recent bolt chopping of the Compressor Route on Cerro Torre, Patagonia by the Americans Hayden Kennedy and Jason Kruk. Before reading the ...