The Huandoy massif lies in Peru's Cordillera Blanca and reaches 6,395m. Even experienced climbers rarely attempt steep and ...

A veteran Japanese climber died while her friend was rescued on the highest mountain in Peru. Experienced mountaineer Chiaki ...

Climbing teams are busy in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca despite dry conditions, which have turned some mixed routes into straight rock climbs. “I may never be able to complete such a difficult and ...

A mountaineer from Japan died and another was rescued during a trek on Peru's tallest mountain, authorities said Thursday.

Hauscaran is the highest point, and crown jewel, of the Cordillera Blanca, a region of breathtaking natural beauty that’s home to a dozen peaks higher than 20,000 feet and hundreds of alpine ...

By 2030, Inaigem anticipates that glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca below 16,000 feet will have disappeared. “That is going to leave a large surface of minerals exposed,” Ms. Montano said. Video ...

One of the two Japanese mountaineers who had gone missing on Mount Huascaran, Yungay province (Ancash region), has died, ...

Melting Himalayan glaciers pose risk to world 04:58. The preserved body of an American mountaineer — who disappeared 22 years ago while scaling a snowy peak in Peru — has been found after ...

The Cordillera Blanca, popular for hiking and mountaineering, has experienced rapid glacial retreat and increasingly dangerous conditions.

The Rio Santa valley in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, has been repeatedly affected by severe glacial flood disasters in the past decades. The continuing high rate of glacier retreat has led to the ...

The climbers had been descending the mountain in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca after an unsuccessful attempt to reach its 22,000 ft summit when they found the body, at about 16,500 ft.

Per the AFP, police said the hiker's "remains were finally exposed by ice melt on the Cordillera Blanca range of the Andes" more than two decades after he was reported missing in June 2002.