But "Society of the Snow" looks at how a Uruguayan rugby ... lost its wings when it hit a mountain ridge in the Andes and crash-landed on a glacier. The passengers were an amateur rugby team ...

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 ...

In parts of the Andes and other mountain ranges, including the Rocky Mountains, many people depend on mountain snow and glacier runoff for water. It is estimated that shrinking glaciers and snow ...

With the country being comprised of the Andes mountains, Galapagos Islands and ... which consists of a road through two rows of snow-capped peaks. The must-see volcanoes include Chimborazo ...