Chile boasts many great travel options, and one of the best for skiers happens to be situated on an actual volcano complete ...

In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically significant area in the Peruvian Andes. Unlike Mediterranean ecosystems ...

Refugio Tejos serves as a critical rest point on the route to Ojos del Salado, the Andes’ highest peak and the world’s highest active volcano. Located in the Copiapo Province, within the ...

These volcanoes have a superlative aesthetic beauty ... the Central Andean páramo (home to some 11 bird species of restricted range), and the Ecuador-Peru East Andes (home to 17 restricted-range ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific ... those that formed some of the mountains in the Andes of South America. At ocean-ocean convergences ...

The Andes run for over 7,000km. Other mountains (usually those that stand on their own) are created by ancient volcanoes. Ben Nevis in Scotland was once a very large active volcano. It last ...