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 ...

sitting on the summit of a mountain in the Atacama Desert. It is now the world’s highest location with a ground-based telescope that will give astronomers an infrared view of the universe.

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

The highest mountain ranges are created by tectonic plates pushing together and forcing the ground up where they meet. This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are ...

Hummingbirds are often highly aggressive and territorial, but in the tough terrains of the Andes Mountains, BGSU researchers found a species of hummingbird is living cohesively with its peers.

The Jimny’s latest claim to global fame is its entry into the Guinness Book of World Records for reaching a record height of 6,688 metres on top of the Andes Mountains in South America.