Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, ...

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh from Hanoi has triumphantly conquered Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas and the tallest ...

The stone, which sustained damage in six spots, had been carved to fit perfectly in a palace wall hundreds of years ago ...

In 1972, a rugby team’s plane crashed in the Andes, leaving survivors stranded for 72 days, forcing them to endure extreme ...

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 new study reveals the extreme vulnerability of the Arequipa shrublands to these blazes, with severe soil degradation ...

West Virginia may be thousands of miles away from the ideal coffee-growing climate, but from the Andes mountains to the ...

U.S. enduro racer Marco "Randy" Osborne and Ella Conolly of Scotland took first-places overall for the Pro Men’s and Pro Women's categories at the 2025 Andes Pacifico enduro race, held Jan. 14 ...

Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a ...