This jagged, granite-walled mountain towers 11,000 feet over El Chaltén in Southern Patagonia. Mount Fitz Roy, which typically stands obscured in a haze of clouds, was originally named "Chaltén," ...
On January 19, Basque climbers Amaia Agirre, 31, and Iker Bilbao, 29, were killed while descending Cerro Chalten (Fitz Roy) when a large, wet avalanche swept them into a crevasse. They had ...
On 30-31/01/2016 the Slovak alpinists Michal Sabovčík and Ján Smolen made the first ascent of Asado (665m, 7a+, M8, A2), a new climb up the South Face of Fitz Roy in Patagonia. Quite a few! Right in ...