Narrated by Tom Hanks, NBC's The Americas continues tonight with a new episode! Here's your preview/viewing guide for Ep. 6: ...

Torrent ducks have to survive freezing temperatures on land and extreme heat in the water. Learn all about it on The Americas.

He spent a period back home getting counseling for his depression ... of a 14,000-foot peak named Cerro San Francisco in the Andes Mountains outside Santiago, Chile, on June 3, 2000.

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

Scientists are warning that the glaciers high up in the Andes Mountains are melting fast—and this could put the water supply ...

The Andes is a mountain range of surprise and wonder. A salt flat lizard surveys the scene on the high altitude altiplane of nothern Chile An elderly villager crosses the Q'eswachaka rope bridge ...

In a study conducted by the University of Wisconsin’s Proglacial Lab, Dr. Shaun Marcott’s team has discovered that tropical glaciers in the Andes Mountains are now smaller than they have been at any ...

I got altitude psychosis a few hundred meters from high camp as I scaled the frigid face of Huayna Potosí, one of the highest mountains in the Bolivian Andes. My optimism, my determination ...

This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes lava to erupt out of the gap that is left. As it cools down ...