On 6 March 2026, a four-person team led by Lukas Irmler and Antonia Rüede-Passul successfully completed a spectacular ...

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 ...

Fresh news from Patagonia: new routes on Fitz Roy (Flavio Daflon, Sergio Tartari and Luciano Fiorenza) and Aguja de l’S (Josh Huckaby and Mikey Schaefer); The Corkscrew on Cerro Torre climbed by Colin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On September 7, Colin Haley achieved a historic first, completing the first solo winter ascent of Cerro Torre in Patagonia. The ...

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 ...

“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 ...