After diving into the poles, it’s time to shift our focus to two of the world’s most iconic mountain ranges,the Andes and the Himalayas. As someone who’s spent much of my life near the towering peaks ...

Explore Colombia’s diverse natural scenery in stunning 4K, featuring the Andes mountains, dense rainforests, and both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines. This visual journey captures the country’s rich ...

The Andes mountain range is home to some of the most stunning trekking experiences in the world. Spanning across seven ...

A bus traveling from Lima to Peru’s Amazon region has overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, leaving at least 18 ...

Argentine authorities have rescued a 58-year-old Uruguayan man who had been lost in the Andes mountains since May. Raul Gomez Cincunegui was spotted at the Sardina mountain shelter on Sunday, at ...

How did the Andes—the world's longest mountain range—reach its enormous size? This is just one of the geological questions that a new method developed by researchers at the University of ...

On the windswept slopes of the Andes mountains, rugged forests grow. These exceptionally hardy trees and shrubs, known as Polylepis, have twisted branches that look like something out of a fairy tale.

In the Andes Mountains of Peru, the air is gaspingly thin, the climate harsh. Now archaeologists have evidence that humans lived there full-time at least 7,000 years ago, making themselves at home ...

Dec. 14, 2021 — The Andes Mountains are much taller than plate tectonic theories predict they should be, a fact that has puzzled geologists for decades. Mountain-building models tend to focus on ...