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.

To celebrate her 40th birthday, the author wanted to hike a mountain in the Bolivian Andes. Hallucinations and vomiting weren't part of the plan.

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 ...

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 ...

News; World news; Plane crash; Andes plane crash survivors reunite 50 years after being forced to resort to cannibalism Survivors gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their horrific ...

Dr. Roberto Canessa, now 70, recalls 72 days stranded atop the Andes Mountains with fellow Uruguayan rugby team members in 1972 ahead of the Jan. 4 release of "Society of the Snow." ...

The Andes Mountains may have growth spurts, doubling their height in as little as 2 million to 4 million years, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

An international team of botanists recently discovered two new species of carnivorous plants in the high Andes of southern Ecuador near the Peruvian border. Both species are described in a study ...

20-year-old Patty died after slipping on ice during an expedition in the Andes in 1981, multiple search efforts failed to locate her body but now her remains have been found ...

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 ...