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 ...

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 ...

In 1971, a year after Maestri's ascent to Cerro Torre, filmmaker Leo Dickinson climbed and filmed an attempt on the Compressor Route. Dickinson left only a few pieces of clean protection at his ...

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 ...

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It was two hours after sunset but the darkness didn’t make a difference to Colin Haley. He was wedged in a vertical, chest-width crevasse just below the summit of Patagonia’s Cerro Torre, squirming ...

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