Along the highest points of the Andes, the rolling mountaintops can ... call these peaks home, living most of their life on ...

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 ...

I got altitude psychosis a few hundred meters from high camp as I scaled the frigid face of Huayna Potosí, one of the highest mountains in the Bolivian Andes. My optimism, my determination ...

This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes lava to erupt out of the gap that is left. As it cools down ...

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 ...