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 ...

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 ...

At 5 pm on 13 January 1974, Casimiro Ferrari, Mario Conti, Pino Negri and Daniele Chiappa stood on the summit of Cerro Torre. Getting up there had proven epic, but getting down was not going to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

“In mid January 2012, Hayden Kennedy and I completed the defining climb of our collective careers. But, the mountain and our route have been betrayed by the unfortunate controversy that enshrouds it ...

In 1959, Italian alpinist Cesare Maestri and his partner Toni Egger mounted a now-infamous ascent attempt of Patagonia’s Cerro Torre, a 10,626-foot granite peak. Claims from Maestri that the pair ...

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 ...