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 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 ...

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 Cerro Torre in Patagonia is one of the most iconic, beautiful, but also most difficult peaks to climb in the world. It took him several attempts, but in 2012, he and his partner Peter Ortner ...

The entire film A Snowball's Chance in Hell, featuring Austrian alpinists David Lama and Peter Ortner making the first free ascent of the Compressor route on Cerro Torre, Patagonia, carried out in ...

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 ...

Italian climbing legend Cesare Maestri has spent nearly half a century refuting those who dispute his 1959 ascent of Patagonia's 10,262-foot Cerro Torre, and he's getting tired of it. “His defense?

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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 ...