On 7 September 2025 the Italian alpinists Matteo Della Bordella and Marco Majori completed the coveted first winter ascent of the Casarotto route on Fitz Roy in Patagonia. The legendary climb up the ...

The video of Italian alpinists Matteo Della Bordella and Leo Gheza climbing the Care Bear Traverse in the Fitz Roy massif in Patagonia, i.e. enchaining Aguja Guillaumet, Aguja Mermoz, Pilastro Goretta ...

Italian climbers Matteo Della Bordella and Marco Majori have achieved the first winter ascent of Via Casarotto on the Goretta Pillar of Fitz Roy (3,405m), a historic milestone in Patagonian alpinism.

In 1968 I was one of a group of climber friends who drove a 1965 Ford Econoline van from California to Patagonia where we made the third ascent of Cerro Chalten (Fitz Roy), an 11,171-foot granite, ...

“Oh, you’re a climber,” says the person you meet at a party making small talk. “Have you climbed Mt. Everest?” they ask, assuming this oft-climbed summit is the pinnacle of climbing achievement. Colin ...