Reynolds is seen on the summit of 11,171-foot Fitz Roy after 6.38 hours of mixed climbing. He did not linger here long as it was already 3:13 p.m. and he was only halfway done.

His incredible season started on the last day of 2015, when he soloed Fitz Roy (aka Chaltén, the preferred local’s name for the 11,171-foot / 3,405-meter peak), climbing via the California/Fun ...

Jim Reynolds free soloed a challenging 5,000-foot ascent/descent on Cerro Fitz Roy, ... really surreal, to be on the summit of Fitz Roy all alone,” he told National Geographic.

American climber Jim Reynolds just became the first person to free solo up and down Patagonia’s mighty Fitz Roy mountain. We spoke to him to find out how – and more importantly, why – he did it.

The well-visited summit provides amazing views of Fitz Roy, Cerro Torre, and their surrounding icefields. Jenny Abegg has climbed and wandered in the mountains since she was a child, but started ...

In the weeks leading up to his Fitz Roy solo, Reynolds also onsight free soloed—up and down—two other Patagonian peaks. On March 9, he free soloed up Filo Oeste (5.11a) on the West Ridge of ...

Léo Billon, Pierre Labbre and Max Bonniot on the summit of Fitz Roy in Patagonia after having climbed El Corazon Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, ...

Climbing is warmer than abseiling. It continues to snow all morning, we climb with ice axe and crampons and only on the summit crest do the yearned for blue skies and first rays of sun greet us. 21 ...

Rising to 3,405 metres, the summit of Fitz Roy is not a realistic goal for most visitors, but there are countless lesser climbs, as well as walks, mountain bike rides and road trips, to enjoy in ...

Mount Fitz Roy, also known as El Chalten, is a jagged vertical peak in Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park. ... Kellogg and Holsten reached the summit of Fitz Roy late February 14.