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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ermanno Salvaterra discusses the state of Patagonian mountaineering, starting with the large number of ascents on the West Face of Cerro Torre to talk about other class routes on the Torre and her ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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?