The Andes mountain range is the longest in the world and has some of the fastest-disappearing ice packs. Venezuela was the first country to lose its last glacier this past May.

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in a remote location in Chile’s Andes Mountains on October 13, 1972—and those who made it through the crash would need to resort to desperate measures to ...

Venture into the heart of the Andes and experience the majesty of Aconcagua, the tallest peak in the Southern and Western Hemispheres. This cinematic journey captures the raw beauty and brutal reality ...

Most people think about Machu Picchu when they think about the Andes Mountains. However, the alpaca industry is booming there, and Cody has found a way to make it even bigger.

Constantino Aucca Chutas is leading a group of conservationists on mission to restore forests of the world’s highest-altitude trees.

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

The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...

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. This indigenous ...

A bus crash in Peru’s Andes mountains has killed at least 23 people and injured more than a dozen others, the country’s interior ministry said, as emergency crews struggled to reach the site ...

On Oct. 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 carrying 45 people, including a rugby team from Montevideo, crashed in the Andes mountains.

Our comparative assessment of literature pertained to the Andes, the East African mountains, the European Alps, and the Hindu Kush Himalaya. It revealed interesting differences between mountain ...