Everest's peak stands at an impressive 8,849m above the ocean, making it the piece of land at the highest altitude on Earth.

Abstract A.S. Hitchcock compiled photographs relating to collecting trips to Central and South America, 1923-1924. Photographs are numbered and captions include details of location and sometimes date.

Mount Chimborazo is in this South American country that owns the Galapagos Islands. Colton, Ecuador. Ecuador is correct.

Ecuador in South America is a country steeped in culture, rich in history and bursting with natural beauty - yet it doesn't ...

Ecuador's most notorious drug lord has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face cocaine and weapons smuggling charges, a court in Quito said Friday.

QUITO, July 11 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean gang leader Jose Adolfo Macias, known as "Fito," on Friday accepted a court's request to be extradited to the United States to face drug and gun charges.

A swarm of small earthquakes was detected beneath Mount Rainier on July 8, 2025, but officials say there is no current threat of an eruption.

Lord Mount Charles, an Anglo-Irish peer turned rock ’n’ roll promoter, died on June 18 in a hospital in Dublin at 74. His family said the cause was cancer.