Andes
Huascaran Tragedy: One Climber Rescued
Experienced climbers Saki Terada and Chiaki Inada from Japan...
More Deaths in Peru: Bodies of National Geographic Photographer, Two Others Found
BY MARY ANDINO
With an elevation of over 6,000m and...
Drama on Huascaran: One Dead, Rescue Underway For 2nd
On June 23, two female Japanese mountaineers, Saki Terada,...
Aconcagua Season Opens Today; Here’s What It Costs
Aconcagua National Park opens today to trekkers and climbers,...
Climbers Adapt to Drought, Danger for New Routes in Cordillera Blanca
Climbing teams are busy in Peru's Cordillera Blanca despite...
The Pisco Controversy: New Route or Variation?
Last week, Spanish climbers Eneko and Iker Pou announced...
Late Fall in the Andes: A New Route, a Third Ascent, and a Fatal Accident
Although winter has almost arrived in Peru, several teams...
Venezuela Becomes First Modern Country to Lose All Its Glaciers
In an occasion both momentous and deeply disturbing, scientists...
Spanish Women Climb Fitz Roy’s ‘Supercanaleta’
After six intense days and five bivouacs, Lucia Guichot...
Bodies of Missing Climbers Found on Cerro Marmolejo
Yesterday, rescue pilots spotted the bodies of Ignacio Lucero,...
Guide and Two Clients Missing on Chilean Volcano
Argentinian mountain guide Ignacio Lucero and his two clients...
Expedition Wants to Prove the Amazon is the World’s Longest River
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Africa's Nile River...
The Strange Case of the Marvelous Mountaineering Mice
On some volcanic peaks high in the Andes live...
Slovakian Duo Makes First Ascent of a Peruvian 5,000’er
From July 15 to Aug. 15, Slovakian climbers Marek...
