The Huandoy massif lies in Peru's Cordillera Blanca and reaches 6,395m. Even experienced climbers rarely attempt steep and ...

Volunteers with the Andes Education Fund helped build a greenhouse for villagers living at an elevation of 12,500 feet in the Andes mountains. Courtesy photo Debbie Goodson is shown in Peru.

The Amazon-Andes relationship is mutualistic and crosses geological eras. It was the presence and characteristics of the South American mountain range that allowed for the tropical rainforest to ...

How did the Andes – the world's longest mountain range – reach its enormous size? This is just one of the geological questions that a new method developed by researchers at the University of ...