Aconcagua National Park opens today to trekkers and climbers, with new regulations that include increased permit fees. A new law aimed at preserving the park ecosystem differentiates between day ...

Climbing the final 4,000 vertical feet of terrain on the world’s highest peak outside of Asia is not only physically demanding, but mentally, too.

Two Americans and a Norwegian died over the past four days while climbing Aconcagua, the tallest mountain in the Americas, Argentine police said this week. U.S. mountaineer Ayn Vincent Day, 41, died ...

Climbing the highest peak on one or more of the world’s seven continents is a worthy goal—and I understand why you, and so many other people, gravitate to 19,340-foot Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and ...

I first heard the coughing at around 2 a.m. My tent companion, Rex, was hacking and gurgling uncontrollably as he stumbled from our tent toward a makeshift medical center nearby. I knew at once this ...

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Ecuador has several dormant volcanoes not only challenging in themselves, but great practice for bigger peaks. Here is a ...

"He's proven he can do it," says dad, of the icy two-week climb. Nov. 25, 2013— -- At 9 years old, Tyler Armstrong hopes to set a new record by climbing to the top of Argentina's Mount Aconcagua.

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