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 ...

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 ...

Mountaineers Prabal Barman and KM Mujibur Rahman will depart for Argentina on 7 January, marking the next phase of their quest to conquer the highest mountains on all seven continents.

New data identifies two key risk factors for high-altitude pulmonary edema, a leading cause of death on the highest mountain in the Americas Back in 2021, I wrote about the case of Daniel Granberg, a ...

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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 ...

Climbing the final 3,500 vertical feet of terrain on the world’s peak mountain outside of Asia is not only physically demanding, but mentally, too. In Part 1 of this series about Argentina’a Aconcagua ...

"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.