Every year, over 1,000 lives are lost on Peru’s mountain roads, BBC Earth Explore has reported in a video documenting the ...

cold air of the high Andes. Villegas, a member of Socorro Andino, a volunteer organization that rescues people in mountain areas, holds an old picture of one of their first off-road rescue ...

Hummingbirds are often highly aggressive and territorial, but in the tough terrains of the Andes Mountains ... that allow for drainage to pass under roads. The sites in which solitary nesting ...

More than a dozen injured after bus veered off cliff in south-central Andes region of Ayacucho ... are common on Peru’s precarious mountain roads. In September, two dozen people were killed ...

developing solutions to today’s environmental challenges. On the windswept slopes of the Andes mountains, rugged forests grow. These exceptionally hardy trees and shrubs, known as Polylepis ...