The Andes is a mountain range of surprise and wonder ... in the peruvian Andes Climber Ivan Calderon acends a granite cliff know as 'The Sphinx' in the Peruvian Andes. Huascaran National Park ...

A group of Bolivian women is currently attempting to to climb eight mountains over 6000m in the Andes. Aged up to 50 and wearing their traditional dress, for years they have worked as cooks or porters ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative ... that is very nutrient poor," said Cliff Bueno de Mesquita, the paper's co-first author ...

Accelerated soil erosion is a common and environmentally destructive consequence of development, especially in mountain regions ... previous soil erosion research projects in the Ecuadorian Andes ...