Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in a remote location in Chile’s Andes Mountains on October 13, 1972—and those who made it through the crash would need to resort to desperate measures to ...

Located roughly 300 miles north of Lima in Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gran Pajatén complex ...

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which was bound for Santiago, Chile, lost its wings when it hit a mountain ridge in the Andes, with the remaining fuselage coming to rest on a glacier.

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which was bound for Santiago, Chile, lost its wings when it hit a mountain ridge in the Andes, with the remaining fuselage coming to rest on a glacier.

He miscalculated where the plane was relative to the Andes and began their descent too early. As the plane cleared the fog, the passengers saw the ridge of the mountains – but it was too late.

A mountain range is a group of mountains found on land or under the sea, and they include the Andes in South America, the Himalayas in Asia, the Alps in Europe, or even the Mid-Atlantic Ridge deep ...

High in the Andes Mountains of Argentina and Chile, mining companies are scouring the landscape to look for copper, gold, lithium and cobalt deposits, among other lucrative ores. Most of these metals ...

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.

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.