Here are 11 facts about the chilling disaster of the Andes plane crash ... very underpowered engines, full of people, completely loaded, flying over the highest mountains in South America ...

On the windswept slopes of the Andes mountains ... Tree planting is labor intensive, particularly on a mountain slope, which means the people best qualified to dig holes and plant seeds, to ...

cold air of the high Andes. Villegas, a member of Socorro Andino, a volunteer organization that rescues people in mountain areas, holds an old picture of one of their first off-road rescue ...

Over thousands of years, evolution has helped the Aymara people of the high plains of Andes mountains adjust to altitudes as high as 14,400 feet (2.75 miles) above sea level. This indigenous ...

People spend decades perfecting the ability ... they noticed that the specimens categorized from the Andes Mountains had a bit more “goggle” than the others. The birds are native to the ...