Venture into the heart of the Andes and experience the majesty of Aconcagua, the tallest peak in the Southern and Western Hemispheres. This cinematic journey captures the raw beauty and brutal reality ...

Chimborazo is only the 39th tallest mountain in the Andes, when measured from sea level, but there was a brief time in the 19th century when it was thought to be the world’s highest peak ...

The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...

How to define the tallest mountain on Earth is debatable. Mount Everest, everybody's go-to peak, is a contender as its 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak places it as the highest above sea level, with ...

Twenty two years ago, an avalanche buried American climber Bill Stampfl as he made his way up one of the highest peaks in the Andes mountains. His family knew there was little hope of finding him ...

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.