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.

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 ...

At 5 pm on 13 January 1974, Casimiro Ferrari, Mario Conti, Pino Negri and Daniele Chiappa stood on the summit of Cerro Torre. Getting up there had proven epic, but getting down was not going to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

Ermanno Salvaterra, the famed "Man of Cerro Torre," died in a fall on August 18 while guiding the Hartman-Krauss (IV+/5.5; 600m) on Campanile Alto, in the Dolomites. Salvaterra had climbed the classic ...

On 7 September 2025 Colin Haley completed the coveted first winter solo of Cerro Torre. The 41-year-old American alpinist climbed via the famous Ragni Route and made one bivouac, 3 pitches below the ...

Mountaineer Kelly Cordes is among the few who have climbed Cerro Torre in Patagonia. He wrote about his own ascent and others who've climbed the... Veteran Mountaineer On Climbing Cerro Torre The ...