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20-year-old Patty died after slipping on ice during an expedition in the Andes in 1981, multiple search efforts failed to locate her body but now her remains have been found

Marta Emilia Altamirano, better known as Patty, died during an expedition in the Andes in March 1981

Peru is in flames. Since early December, massive, often violent, protests have engulfed the South American nation. Demonstrators concentrated in the country’s southern Andean regions took to the streets after the then president, Pedro Castillo, was deposed for attempting to mount a coup by dismissing the parliament and ruling by…

People are pouring into Peru’s capital, many from remote Andean regions, for a protest against President Dina Boluarte and in support of her predecessor, whose ouster last month launched weeks of deadly unrest and cast the nation into political chaos

In a clearing of Colombia's Pacific jungle, the dense canopy encircles an area of desolation left by a clandestine refinery, where oil waste blackens everything underfoot, seeping into the soil and coating the vegetation.

Supporters of ousted president Pedro Castillo had blocked train tracks near Inca citadel with rocks

With Argentina reaching fever pitch just hours before Lionel Messi and his teammates take on France in the World Cup final, football fans throughout the country felt a sense of destiny brewing. From Jujuy in the north to Chubut, some 2,800 kilometers to the south, from Mendoza at the foot…

Whether they live on Mount Kilimanjaro, in the Himalayas, or the Andes, women and girls in mountain communities around the world have much in common: they are often the ones managing daily life in the mountains, as protectors of the land and biodiversity and keepers of traditional knowledge.

The small Cconchaccota lagoon has been the axis of life in Vilma Huamaní's community high in Peru's southern Andes