He has now set another world first after making it to the top of the 6961 metre Mount Aconcagua, in the Andes mountain range in the Mendoza region of Argentina on Saturday. Mr Budha Magar, who is ...

This breathtaking freshwater lake has a surface elevation of an incredible 12,500 feet and is often dubbed the highest ...

I got altitude psychosis a few hundred meters from high camp as I scaled the frigid face of Huayna Potosí, one of the highest mountains in the Bolivian Andes. My optimism, my determination ...

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The highest mountain ranges are created by tectonic plates pushing together and forcing the ground up where they meet. This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are ...

The instrument was developed by a team at the Mount Washington Observatory, and spent a year on Mount Everest before being ...

As the highest peak on the continent of South America ... 2024. Located in the Andes Mountain Range in Argentina, and near the border with Chile, Aconcagua receives environmental protection ...