In 2005, archaeologists discovered a 600- to 1,000-year-old tomb filled with painted wooden masks and headdresses decorated ...

developing solutions to today’s environmental challenges. On the windswept slopes of the Andes mountains, rugged forests grow. These exceptionally hardy trees and shrubs, known as Polylepis, have ...

"Society of the Snow" is earning raves for its a ccurate depiction of the terrifying 1972 plane crash in the Andes mountains that involved a Uruguayan rugby team. The new Netflix drama, directed by ...

On October 13, 1972, the Andes mountains witnessed the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. Forty five passengers and crew, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby union team, along ...

High in the Andes Mountains of Argentina and Chile, mining companies are scouring the landscape to look for copper, gold, lithium and cobalt deposits, among other lucrative ores. Most of these metals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Chile’s towering El Plomo mountain in the Andes has been climbed and revered for centuries. The route to the top – more ...

Focusing on the Lake Titicaca Basin in the Andes mountains, anthropologists found through analysis of 1,179 projectile points that the rise of archery technology dates to around 5,000 years ago.

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 ...

It is one of the most amazing stories you can possibly imagine. In 1972, 16 men survived 72 days in harsh conditions after a plane carrying a rugby team from Uruguay crashed in the Andes mountains, ...

Villa La Angostura is a charming mountain town in Argentina’s Neuquén Province, located along the shores of the magnificent ...