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.

In September 2024 photographer Tyler Lekki set out to document the impossible: Climber Colin Haley was making the first solo ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tomas and Pedro Odell, just 20 and 22 years old and born in nearby El Chalten, have now climbed all the spires of the Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre massifs.

Tuesday 25th January. It is 11.30 am, David Bacci, Matteo De Zaiacomo "Giga", and I (Matteo Della Bordella) set off up the east face of Cerro Torre, via the route established by Cesare Maestri and ...

41-year-old Italian mountaineer Corrado 'Korra' Pesce was seriously injured in a climbing accident on Cerro Torre in Patagonia. Loved and respected by all, and known as one of the strongest climbers ...