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The video of Italian alpinists Matteo Della Bordella and Leo Gheza climbing the Care Bear Traverse in the Fitz Roy massif in Patagonia, i.e. enchaining aguja guillaumet, Aguja Mermoz, Pilastro Goretta and Fitz Roy.

Remembering Ermanno Salvaterra, the great Italian mountaineer of the Brenta Dolomites and Patagonia, who perished yesterday while climbing on Campanile Alto di Brenta.

The video of Pete Whittaker and Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll making first free ascents in the Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre massif in Patagonia.

On 31/01/2023 the East Face of aguja guillaumet in Patagonia the Italian alpinists Alessandro Baù, Claudio Migliorini and Francesco Ratti made the first ascent of 'Wake Up' (425m, 7a/A2).

The video of Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll which was awarded a Piolets d'Or 2022: the Moonwalk Traverse, ie the solo traverse from south to north of the Fitz Roy massif in Patagonia, carried out by the Belgian mountaineer from 5 -...

The organisers of the Piolet d’Or mountaineering award have published the complete list of most significant and innovative climbs carried out in 2021.The prize giving ceremony will be celebrated from 18 to 20 November 2022 at Briançon in France.

The 2022 Piolets d'Or awards for alpinism will be conferred from 18- 20 November at Briançon in France to Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll of Belgium for his Moonwalk Traverse of the Fitz Roy Group in Patagonia, and to Archil Badriashvili, Baqar...

Belgian climber Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll has made a solo ascent of the Fitz Roy Traverse in Patagonia. This is one of the most important climbs ever carried out in Patagonia.

Iker Pou and his brother Eneko Pou have made the first ascent of Haizea, a new 550m climb up Aguja de la S in the Fitz Roy massif of Patagonia.

In Patagonia the two Ragni di Lecco alpinists Paolo Marazzi and Luca Schiera have made the first ascent of Cerro Mangiafuoco. The new route is called L'appel du vide (6c M4 400m).

The video of the first winter solo ascent of aguja guillaumet in Patagonia, carried out on 8 September 2017 by Austrian mountaineer Markus Pucher.

From 25 - 28 November 2018 the Italian alpinists Michele Colturi, Federico Martinelli and Federico Secchi repeated the famous Supercanaleta route up Fitz Roy in Patagonia.

Austrian alpinist Markus Pucher talks about the first winter solo ascent of aguja guillaumet (2579 m), carried out in Patagonia on 8 September 2017.

On 8 September 2017 Austrian alpinist Markus Pucher made the first solo winter ascent of aguja guillaumet (Patagonia).

Spanish mountaineers Iker Pou and Eneko Pou have established a new mixed climb up the East Face of aguja guillaumet in Patagonia. Called 'Aupa 40', the 525m outing breaches difficulties up to 5+, M7 85˚.

Between 20 July and 9 September 2015 the Slovenian alpinists Anastasija Davidova and Matija Jošt - Matic made what are believed to be the first ascents of three previously unclimbed peaks in the India’s Raru valley: Khumchu Ri 6064m, Kun...