Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 meters above sea level in southern Peru, where the Andes and the Amazon Basin ...

Aymarans, who live in the Andes mountain range of western South America, have evolved their own unique adaptation to life at ...

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 ...

The first real city in the Americas lies 200km north of Peruvian capital Lima, which was built 5000 years ago. Archaeologist Ruth Shady explores the ancient cradle of Andean culture.