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 ...

The entirety of Argentina is walled to the west by the hulking Andes mountains. Cleaving between its snow-slicked peaks, Ruta 40 is a 3,227-mile highway that guides travelers through the rainbow ...

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 ...

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 ...

The critically acclaimed film “Society of the Snow,” directed by J ... tale of a Uruguayan rugby team's survival in the Andes after a plane crash in 1972, recently hit theaters and Netflix ...

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 ...