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 ...

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 ...

Aconcagua (22,838 feet) is both the tallest mountain in the Americas and the highest mountain in the world outside of Asia. Located near Argentina's border with Chile, 70 miles northwest of Mendoza, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A lover of sport and nature, Brazil’s Fernanda Maciel is one of the most renowned ultramarathon athletes in the world today. On February 22, 2016, Fernanda Maciel became the first woman to run up and ...