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.

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 ...

Paralpinism in Patagonia: German mountaineer Fabian Buhl has made a paraglide flight off the summit of Cerro Torre in Patagonia. The 29-year-old is the first to do so after reaching the summit by his ...

Italian alpinist Corrado “Korra” Pesce, 41, has died in Patagonia while descending Cerro Torre’s north face. Pesce and his partner, Tomás Aguiló, established a new route up the mountain, beginning on ...

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 ...

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 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 January 16, Hayden Kennedy and Jason Kruk stood on the summit of Cerro Torre, a 10,262-foot-high, sheer-walled granite tower on the border of Argentine and Chilean Patagonia. The pair had just ...