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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Tiwanaku society thrived around the highest navigable lake in the world – before their mysterious disappearance ...

The ancient mountains of the Andes are home to spectacled bears, pumas and the magnificent Andean condor. They’re also home to forests of lesser-known but critically important polylepis ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.