Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aconcagua National Park opens today to trekkers and climbers, with new regulations that include increased permit fees. A new law ...

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 ...

On January 28, trail runner Erin Ton set a new speed record on 22,837-foot Aconcagua, the tallest peak in the Americas. Ton, 29, completed the 9.5-mile round trip from the peak’s Base Camp at Plaza de ...

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 ...

At 4,370m (14,337 ft), Plaza de Mulas is more than just a camp on Aconcagua, the mountain in Argentina known as the “Rooftop of the Americas.” It’s a temporary city built into thin air every single ...

The Argentine mountain Aconcagua, while technically quite easy, is no pushover. Climbing at 22,841 ft. with no supplemental oxygen in temperatures below -30 F will get your attention. Argentina’s ...