John Bolte, an American rock climber, was killed by rockfall while descending Patagonia's Cerro Chalten (Fitz Roy) on February 23. He and Adam Martos, a fellow Santa Cruz local, had finished a ...

On January 19, Basque climbers Amaia Agirre, 31, and Iker Bilbao, 29, were killed while descending Cerro Chalten (Fitz Roy) when a large, wet avalanche swept them into a crevasse. They had ...

In South America, religious icons are as common as sunrise, and shrines are ubiquitous. But a shrine studded with cigarette packs, bottles of beer and decks of playing cards? Population 800, elevation ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

Jenny Abegg of the U.S. is an unlikely athlete to set FKTs in the mountains. Sometimes, she pauses for half an hour on the ...

In the town of El Chalten, Chile, a massive crowd fills the local high school gymnasium. The small village serves as a base for the many climbers who flock to Patagonia’s challenging peaks. After ...

Im Sommer sieht man den Cerro Torre vor lauter Bergsteigern kaum - der 3128 Meter hohe Berg in Patagonien ist äußerst beliebt. Mythen umranken den schroffen Gipfel, steil ragt er von allen Seiten in ...

Two of the best day hikes in South America, both starting from the small town of El Chalten, known as the hiking capital of Argentina: 1. Trail to Laguna de los Tres, at the base of Cerro Fitz Roy; 2.