Learn about a recent study that asserts the Andes Mountains in South America as the birthplace of a pathogen that has caused ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping ...

Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes mountain range in South America. The Incas diverted rivers and used sophisticated irrigation systems ...

A group of Bolivian women is currently attempting to to climb eight mountains over 6000m in the Andes. Aged up to 50 and wearing their traditional dress, for years they have worked as cooks or porters ...

The ancient mountains of the Andes are home to spectacled bears ... The water security of the millions of people who live in the foothills of the Andes is also at risk. Constantino Aucca Chutas ...

U.S. enduro racer Marco "Randy" Osborne and Ella Conolly of Scotland took first-places overall for the Pro Men’s and Pro ...

This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes lava to erupt out of the gap that is left. As it cools down ...

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 ...