Seán Villanueva O'Driscoll free climbing the crux traverse on pitch 22 of the east pillar of Cerro Chaltén. Photo by Tasio Martín The East Pillar marks the left side of the imposing east face of Cerro Chaltén (Fitz Roy). The route that climbs...
In the Chaltén Massif, as has become customary, there were several major rockfall events in the 2025–26 season, some particularly large, including from Cerro Adela, El Mochito, the Filo del Hombre Sentado, Aguja de la Silla, the west side of Cerro...
The Central (left) and North towers in the Paine group, with the line of Paradigm Shift. The route climbs 29 new pitches, then follows the 1963 Bonington-Whillans route to the summit. Photo by Trevor Anthes This project began in the Chilean s...
In 1999, Swiss climber Peter Luthi and Argentines Andy Casal, Marcelo Galghera, and Leo Viamonte spent two months exploring the Turbio IV Valley and started a route up the large wall of La Oreja, then unclimbed. Two years later, Casal returned wi...
In August and September, Joaco Cisternas and Nico Gutiérrez from Chile climbed two long ice and mixed routes in the Cajón del Maipo area. The first was on Cerro Punta Balcón (3,650m, -33.766485, -70.034874): Corredor Chaski (800m, WI4 M5 40°). The...
Between October 18 and 25, Lisandro Arelovich, Gervasio Fierro, and Glauco Muratti from Rosario, Argentina, made the first ascent of Cerro Hosco (5,109m, -32.9406, -69.6697), west of Mendoza. The group departed from Punta de Vacas (2,400m) and biv...
Nevado de Chañi (5,896m) and the line of El Vuelo del Pichón on the south face. Earlier routes are not shown. Argentines Emilio Arciènaga and Ulises Kusnezov and Venezuelan Bernardo Baena opened a new ice route in early June on Nevado de Chañ...
Dakota Walz cruises the fifth pitch of Mercury Miners (220m, 6a+) a new line on the Chameleon Wall, with a great view of Tsaranoro Be and its neighbors across the valley. Photo by Bosco Bonilla After a month of big-walling in Mozambique, Bosc...
Edinburgh Hill, rising nearly 600 feet above the Drake Passage, off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. The climbers ascended the orange basalt near the prow, followed by dangerous scrambling to the summit. Photo by Todd Swain In early Februa...
Henry Feder on the fourth pitch of Endemic Species (1,200’, 5.11+) on Flatiron Butte. Photo by Mike Pond In July 2024, Henry Feder and I spent a week at Flatiron Butte in the Northern Sierra and established two new routes on the east face: Ph...
Derek Field on the face traverse at the top of pitch two (5.10) on Giselle’s Big Advencha. Photo by Vitaliy Musiyenko In the summer of 2025, on July 13, Derek Field and I completed the first ascent of Giselle’s Big Advencha (1,200’, 5.10+) on...
Daniel Jeffcoach casting off on pitch seven of (5.9) Tying the Knot (9 pitches, 5.12d). Photo by Brian Prince On February 28, Daniel Jeffcoach, Joe Maier, Brian Prince, Tristan Thau, and I completed Tying the Knot (9 pitches, 5.12d). The new ...
Leah Scott following the pitch two dihedral on The Rainbow Bridge. Photo by Zack Little In summer 2025, Noah Ronczkowski and I climbed a route on the northwest face of Mt. Owen established in 2020 by our dear friends Michael Hutchins and the ...
Start of the East Face. Photo: Curtis Baird Collection In the autumn of 2021, along with Rachel and Gabe Skiera, I headed to Clarks Fork Canyon in the Absaroka Range to check out an area called the Mouth, about 25 miles north of Cody, where a...
Devin Schneid following pitch four of Two Left Feet on Sumac Point. Photo by Stefanos Apostle During the months of August and September, I spent a total of 24 days with four different partners in the Wind Rivers’ Cirque of the Moon (42.75610...
Adrien Costa leading the fourth pitch of Petrified Songs on the northeast face of Wolf Mountain. Photo by Earl Lunceford On November 8, Adrien Costa and I parked our truck at the intersection of Lulu Pass and the Goose Lake 4x4 road. Nine mil...
Nick Sramek on the east prow of Baring Point in Glacier National Park. Photo by Seth Anderson Over the summer of 2025, I established three routes with various partners in Glacier National Park, an area known for its rotten rock, murky history...
Monto II (6,030m) and the 2025 route of ascent via the northwest face and southwest ridge. Photo by Sonarpur Arohi Expedition In August and September 2023, an Indian expedition explored the Monto Group from the east, the first team known to d...
Nadezhda Muzhikina not far from the summit of Iris Peak. Photo by Olga Paducheva For more than six months, we had prepared for our expedition, planning for every contingency, from border delays to bad weather. But life reminded us you cannot ...
Climbing on the west-southwest ridge of the Horn of Harsil. Photo by Ankit Mahato On June 10, Cyrus Wirls and I completed the second recorded ascent of the Horn of Harsil (4,823m; the peak has two summits, with the west horn being higher). Th...