High up in the mountains, in a rocky world left behind by melting glaciers, life finds an unlikely jumpstart—thanks to poop.

In February, an international team of climbers and scientists summitted the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere: Aconcagua in Argentina. After weeks of climbing and camping in extreme, rocky ...

Credit: Dan Contereras/John Rick/Cover Images Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence of humans smoking psychedelic drugs in the Peruvian Andes. Around 2,000 years before the Inca empire ...

Seven nations sharing world’s longest mountain range already impacted by climate change.

On October 13, 1972, the Fairchild FH-227D aircraft transporting a delegation of the Old Christians rugby club to Santiago, Chile, crashed in the Andes mountains. The accident, which came to be ...

Resisting on the high mountains of the Andes. Planting trees for tomorrow ... If we expect to see a future that’s still worth living in, then poor, working-class, and oppressed people across ...

Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds ...

The volcano Uturuncu, located in the Central Andes mountains, has seemingly risen from the dead. While the volcano has not erupted in more than 250,000 years, it has recently shown signs of ...

A new species of deer, Pudella carlae, has been identified in the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, marking the first new cervid discovery in South America in over six decades. This tiny deer ...