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

Alpacas are small camelid mammals raised by the ancient Incas in South America over 6000 years ago. Kept in herds, alpacas ...

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 ...

The volcano Uturuncu, located in the Central Andes mountains, has seemingly risen from the dead. While the volcano has not ...

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

Chemical analysis reveals traces of a number of psychoactive compounds thought to have been used to secure leaders' status ...

This incredibly large find is located in the Vicuña Mineral Resource, which is situated in the San Juan Province of Argentina and the Atacama Region of Chile.

Daniel Fernández, one of the 16 survivors of the tragic 1972 Andes plane crash, passed away on May 8 in Montevideo at the age ...

High up in the mountains, in a rocky world left behind by melting glaciers, life finds an unlikely jumpstart—thanks to poop. At nearly 18,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes, wild camelids called ...