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 ...

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 ...

The deaths of Janet Johnson and John Cooper have long been shrouded in mystery. A newly discovered camera promises to shed light on the 50-year-old mystery surrounding the deaths of two climbers on ...

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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Every couple of years we take a moment to ask, "What's Tyler Andrews up to?" He's an accomplished runner who’s competed in two U.S. Olympic Marathon trials, won a silver medal at the World 50k ...

"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.