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In the high Andes, a dream to restore a special forest takes root
Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a ...
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Exploring the Southern Chilean Andes
The Cruce Andino, or Andean Crossing, serves as a gateway to this magnificent region, where visitors can traverse the mighty Andes Mountain Range while discovering a series of breathtaking natural ...
‘Ornate’ creature — with voluminous lips — found in Peru mountain river. See new species
In central Peru, the Andes mountains carve the landscape and direct rivers through the towering peaks. More than 1,000 feet ...
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I hiked a mountain in the Andes to celebrate my 40th birthday. The hallucinations and violent vomiting that followed weren't part of the plan.
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 ...
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Explore mountains
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 ...
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Uruguayan Central Bank to commemorate Andes survivors
Uruguay's Central Bank is to mint 5,000 coins to ... But 16 of them managed to survive 72 days in the snowy mountain range in subhuman conditions which led to feeding of the dead among other ...