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 ...

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 the deep-seated ...

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.

The majestic Incan citadel is located around 8,000 feet above sea level atop a narrow mountain ridge in a remote section of the Andes.

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.

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 ...

The Andes are undergoing several potentially contradictory changes as a result of global warming. According to a 2003 study, temperatures have warmed by about 0.34 degrees Celsius per decade since ...

Last August I went skiing in Chile's Andes Mountains at the Valle Nevado ski resort and it was one of the most ... The resort itself is situated on a ridge in the Andes that's about 10,000 feet ...