For a few moments on a Friday in January, Mark Hoffman was likely the highest person on the planet – physically and mentally. The 24-year-old Dillon resident was one of only a handful of climbers who ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A 9-year-old boy from Southern California has become the youngest person in recorded history to reach the summit of Argentina’s ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Moeses Fiamoncini and Dario Libano of Brazil climbed Aconcagua in just one week to and from their home in Sao Paulo, located just ...

Aconcagua’s previous record-holder was Matthew Moniz, of Boulder, Colorado, who was 10 when he reached the summit in 2008. There was one younger boy who climbed the lower slopes of Aconcagua, Garcia ...

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The second tallest of the Seven Summits, Aconcagua sits deep in the Andes on the western edge of Argentina. At 22,841 feet, simply standing on top is a benchmark for high-altitude alpinists. On ...

Though it’s the second-highest of the seven summits, 22,834-foot Aconcagua is also one of the most accessible. Doubt that? Tim Sohn managed to summit on willpower, Kool-Aid, and, okay, yeah, a little ...

Staring out at the formidable Argentinian mountain Aconcagua in 2013, the last thing David Morris ever imagined was that he’d climb the 22,837-foot peak someday. Flash forward a few years and that ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – A 9-year-old from Yorba Linda can now say he’s stood on the highest peaks of two continents. Tyler Armstrong successfully reached the summit of Argentina’s Mount Aconcagua at ...

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