Reuters reports that Peruvian authorities announced the discovery of a major lost ancient city in the country’s Barranca ...

This ancient city in modern-day Bolivia is almost 13,000 feet above sea level. Only a small portion of the ruins have been ...

Mountain Research and Development Vol. 40, No. 2, May 2020 Nature and People in the Andes, East African Mountains, European Alps, and Hindu Kush Himalaya: Current Research and Future Directions This ...

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in a remote location in Chile’s Andes Mountains on October 13, ... By the time rescue teams arrived on December 22 and 23, only 16 people were still alive.

A view shows the Iver glacier close to the El Plomo mountain summit, in the Andes mountain range, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile, April 4, 2024. “Every year things are changing more.

Over thousands of years, evolution has helped the Aymara people of the high plains of Andes mountains adjust to altitudes as high as 14,400 feet (2.75 miles) above sea level.

The ancient mountains of the Andes are home to spectacled bears, pumas and the magnificent Andean condor. They’re also home to forests of lesser-known but critically important polylepis ...

The ancient mountains of the Andes are home to spectacled bears, pumas and the magnificent Andean condor. They’re also home to forests of lesser-known but critically important polylepis ...