Oct 14 2024
Nevado del Huila 🏔️ Overview Nevado del Huila is a massive glacier-covered volcanic complex rising above the Cordillera Central of the Colombian Andes. Reaching 5,364 meters (17,598 feet) at Pico Central, it is the highest active volcano in Colombia and the highest point of the country’s Cordillera Central. The mountain is unusual even among the …
Jul 04 2024
🏔️ Overview The Cordillera Occidental, or Western Cordillera, is the westernmost major mountain division of the Peruvian Andes. Extending through much of Peru, it forms an extraordinary highland landscape of glacier-covered summits, volcanic peaks, deep canyons, windswept plateaus, alpine lakes, and traditional Andean communities. Rather than being a single, uniform mountain range, the Cordillera Occidental …
Jul 03 2024
🏔️ Overview The Cordillera Occidental is the westernmost of Colombia’s three principal Andean mountain ranges. Rising between the Pacific coastal lowlands and the Cauca River Valley, it forms a rugged landscape of tropical rainforest, cloud forest, steep river canyons, remote mountain ridges, and high-altitude páramo. Although it does not contain the towering glacier-covered volcanoes associated …
Jun 30 2024
🏔️ Overview The Andes of Patagonia form one of the most dramatic mountain landscapes on Earth. Stretching across southern Chile and Argentina, this rugged section of the Andes Mountains is defined by immense ice fields, granite towers, temperate rainforests, turquoise lakes, windswept grasslands, and glaciers descending toward Pacific fjords. Unlike the exceptionally high mountains of …
May 28 2024
Aconcagua 🏔️ Overview Aconcagua is the highest mountain in South America, the highest peak in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres, and the highest mountain anywhere outside Asia. Rising above the dry, glacier-carved landscapes of western Argentina, it dominates the Principal Cordillera of the Andes near the Chilean border. Argentina’s Instituto Geográfico Nacional identifies Aconcagua’s …
May 28 2024
Ojos del Salado 🏔️ Overview Ojos del Salado is the highest volcano on Earth, the highest mountain in Chile, and the second-highest mountain in South America. Rising to approximately 6,893 meters (22,615 feet), this enormous volcanic massif straddles the border between Chile and Argentina in one of the driest high-mountain environments on the planet. Only …
May 28 2024
Huascarán 🏔️ Overview Huascarán is the highest mountain in Peru and the highest mountain located within Earth’s tropical latitudes. Rising above the dramatic valleys and glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca, its snow-covered summit reaches a traditionally accepted elevation of 6,768 meters (22,205 feet). The mountain has two principal summits. Huascarán Sur, the southern summit, is …
May 28 2024
Huandoy (Tullparaju) 🏔️ Overview Huandoy is one of the most spectacular mountains in the Peruvian Andes, rising above turquoise glacial lakes, steep forested valleys, and some of the highest tropical glaciers on Earth. Its highest summit, Huandoy Norte, reaches approximately 6,395 meters (20,981 feet) in the heart of the Cordillera Blanca. The mountain stands immediately …
May 28 2024
Chimborazo 🏔️ Overview Chimborazo is the highest mountain in Ecuador and one of the most extraordinary peaks on Earth. Rising approximately 6,263 meters, or 20,548 feet, above sea level, this immense glacier-covered volcano dominates the central Ecuadorian highlands and stands as the highest summit in the Northern Andes. Although Chimborazo is considerably lower than Mount …
May 28 2024
Volcán Cotopaxi 🏔️ Overview Volcán Cotopaxi rises above the Ecuadorian Andes in an almost perfectly symmetrical cone of dark volcanic rock, snow, and glacial ice. Standing approximately 5,897 meters, or 19,347 feet, above sea level, it is Ecuador’s second-highest mountain and one of the world’s highest active volcanoes. Located roughly 50 kilometers south of Quito, …
