What began as a typical training day Sunday for climbers practicing a rescue course along Peru's Vallunaraju Mountain turned ...

MastercardAs Peruvian biologist Constantino Aucca Chutas sat chewing coca leaves with a local elder high in the Andes, his ...

The Lincoln-based band will perform in concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at The Tassel in Holdrege. Kusi Taki specializes in music of the Andean cultures of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Chile. The name of the ...

A doorway cut with great precision into the face of a rocky mountain in Peru may be one of the world's greatest mysteries.

Saúl Luciano Lliuya shudders as he looks up at the endless slabs of ice crushed haphazardly atop each other, towering ...

Angkor Wat has pickpocketing monkeys, but Macchu Picchu has lovable llamas and a bevy of beautiful native fauna including the ...

Saul Luciano Lliuya grows corn, potatoes and quinoa. In winter, he takes tourists up to the icy heights of the Peruvian Andes.   Now the farmer from the mountain village of Huaraz is in the global ...

How the "bowl food" staple traveled from the Andes to Peruvian haute cuisine to health-conscious menus across the U.S.

Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands, but they were often more complex than modern ...

Shrinking Andean glaciers threaten water supplies for 90 million people, with near-total ice loss possible by 2100 unless ...