Three brave ajumma (middle-aged Korean women) successfully climbed the notoriously steep Mount Fitz Roy (3,405 meters or 11,170 feet high) in Patagonia, Argentina, after three nights and four days.

This jagged, granite-walled mountain towers 11,000 feet over El Chaltén in Southern Patagonia. Mount Fitz Roy, which typically stands obscured in a haze of clouds, was originally named "Chaltén," ...

PATAGONIA — 7 a.m. I wake up to the shrill of an alarm and roll over on my top bunk, releasing the warm pocket of air underneath my big, wool blanket. With half of my body hanging off, I manage to ...

AN IRISH tourist has cheated death following a 60-metre fall during a hike in Argentina’s Patagonia region. The holidaymaker slipped on ice as he walked to a lake called Laguna de los Tres to reach a ...

Patagonia, the vast South American wilderness at the southern tip of the continent, is not exactly undiscovered – witness the bevy of cushy adventure lodges in or near Torres del Paine National Park – ...

One of nature’s greatest strip teases takes place in this wind-beaten hamlet near the bottom of the world. Fierce westerlies from the Pacific slice over the massive southern continental ice cap, ...

At the far reaches of South America, where mountain peaks pierce blue skies and glaciers reach into turquoise lakes, Patagonia offers travelers a profound sense of standing at the earth’s edge. A ...

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PATAGONIA, Argentina - The mountaineering community in Western Washington and worldwide is mourning the death of one of its elite athletes. Seattle climber Chad Kellogg was killed by a chunk of ...