Fast forward a few decades and Cerro Torre has become the ultimate challenge in free climbing once again. Just days before David Lama’s own free climb, American Hayden Kennedy and Canadian Jason ...

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 ...

David Lama is a 2013 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year for completing the first free climb of Patagonia's Cerro Torre along the Southeast Ridge, the infamous Compressor Route. Vote every ...

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 ...

On Jan. 27 two climbing teams completed separate, parallel new routes on Cerro Torre, a peak in Argentine Patagonia considered by many to be the most beautiful mountain on earth.

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 ...

Jason Kruk, a 24-year-old professional mountain climber from Squamish, describes Maestri’s step-ladder of bolts on the 3,128-metre Cerro Torre (or “Tower Hill”) as a “complete atrocity ...

As documented, on 7 February 29-year-old German mountaineer Fabian Buhl climbed Cerro Torre in Patagonia via the West Face Ragni route and then paraglided off the summit mushroom at dawn. This wasn’t ...

Fast forward a few decades and Cerro Torre has become the ultimate challenge in free climbing once again. Just days before David Lama’s own free climb, American Hayden Kennedy and Canadian Jason ...