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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This iconic logo is modeled after Artesonraju, a 19,767-foot mountain in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range of the Peruvian Andes. But Artesonraju and its good looks are just one of many ...