Chile wasn’t a country I had given much thought to before visiting. To be fair, I didn’t know much about it beyond its famously long and skinny shape and the fact that it shares Patagonia with ...

While the ski season in the northern hemisphere is still going strong at many resorts, Valle Nevado, Chile, is already ...

Deep in the Chilean rainforest sits a magical hotel, aptly named the Magic Mountain Hotel. Living up to its fairytale-like name, the hotel is shaped like a volcano, covered in moss, and has a ...

In April 2012 Robert Jasper, Jörn Heller and Ralf Gantzhorn carried out the first ascent of the Shark's Fin Ridge. The route climbs the west face of Monte Giordano (1517m, Chile), a mountain which in ...

Mountain Capital Partners (MCP)—owners of several ski resorts primarily in the southwestern U.S.—has entered an agreement to purchase Chile's La Parva Ski Resort, located in the famed Tres Valles ...

Torres Del Avellano, Patagonia, Chile: Paul Swail starting up the huge East Face of the south Avellano tower, climbed with Will Sim, John Crook and John McCune Planetmountain.com is a site about ...

During test runs, a converted Porsche 911 managed to climb Chile's highest volcano using e-fuel, a class of synthetic fuels, reaching 6,734 meters above sea level. The e-fuel used comes from the ...

After a six-week ocean voyage, a week spent waiting to offload, and another week trekking through the mountains, the first major component of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) has arrived ...