Bill Stampfl vanished climbing Peru's highest mountain 22 years ago. This is the story of the hiker who found him and brought ...

What began as a routine training session during a rescue course on Peru’s Vallunaraju Mountain peak on April 13 turned into a real-life emergency when part of a massive glacier broke off unexpectedly.

It said that a potential glacial lake outburst flood from Lake Palcacocha (Cordillera Blanca, Peru) threatens Huaraz, a city of 120,000 residents. In 1941, an outburst flood destroyed one-third of ...

Communities in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru have long been managing glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF). Rockfalls, land slides and glaciers calving into water bodies have triggered events with ...

In the high Andes of northern Peru, the morning sun rises over glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca mountains that loom above the city of Huaraz, an awe-inspiring sight tainted by fears of a growing ...

On my trip, I explored the Callejón de Huaylas, or Huaylas Valley, which is nestled between the Cordillera Blanca and ...

Sebastian’s and Diamond’s favorites were Peru’s central mountain ranges (Cordillera Blanca and Cordillera Huayhuash), which “had the most impressive multi-day trekking opportunities of the ...