For travelers who love peaceful small towns with plenty of mountain views, head to New York's "Land in the Sky" for cute ...

DANDY ANDES: The Andes Hotel (above) has become a chic destination that offers entertainment and local produce, not unlike what you can find at a local farmstand. Julie Lewis My most vivid memories of ...

Although being able to predict the date on which the next big earthquake will occur is still some way off becoming a reality, it is now possible to identify the areas where they will occur.

The Andes were formed by tectonic activity whereby Earth is uplifted as one plate (oceanic crust) subducts under another plate (continental crust). To get such a high mountain chain in a subduction ...

With glaciers marking its tip, active volcanoes running along its spine, snow-capped peaks rising high above its range, both wet and dry tropical rainforests within its interior, and desert, lowland ...

By Ruth Kamnitzer High in the Andes, Polylepis trees, with their stunted gnarled trunks and twisted limbs, cling to steep mountain slopes, boulder fields and sheltered ravines. Growing at altitudes of ...

Stranded in the freezing cold with nothing left to eat, the survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash had to do the unimaginable. For the 16 young men who survived the devastation, eating their deceased ...