This year's dry, cold season has increased medical issues at altitude. Altitude sickness is more common, and there have been ...

Maltese mountaineer and rock climber Rita Saliba has successfully reached the summit of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, ...

For a few moments on a Friday in January, Mark Hoffman was likely the highest person on the planet – physically and mentally. The 24-year-old Dillon resident was one of only a handful of climbers who ...

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.

Buenos Aires, Dec 27 (EFE).Buenos Aires, Dec 27 (EFE). — A 9yearold U.S. boy has become the youngest person to reach the summit of Argentina’s Mount Aconcagua, the tallest peak in the Americas, Clarin ...

The bodies of two American mountaineers were discovered at the bottom of a 650-foot ravine by an Argentinean helicopter, days after the pair went missing during an attempt to summit the highest peak ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – A 9-year-old from Yorba Linda can now say he’s stood on the highest peaks of two continents. Tyler Armstrong successfully reached the summit of Argentina’s Mount Aconcagua at ...