Local legends among the Aymara people, who called the formation the “Devil’s Doorway,” warn that the gate is not to be entered lightly.

These glaciers, located near the equator, are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and the consequences of their melting are vast.

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 ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died ...

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 Andean fox, puma and spectacled bear. You might sight the fabulous cock-of ...

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 ...

Extending my reservation at Andean Wings Sotupa Eco Lodge by a weekend as a result of the injury I'd received 48 hours ...