Now the infamous tragedy – or miracle – in the Andes that ... climbing the mountain right now. We must tell them not to be discouraged, to keep going.” Society of the Snow, from Spanish ...

That true story is now being told in the hit Netflix film “Society of the Snow ... Andes when the co-pilot at the controls started to descend, mistakenly thinking he'd cleared the mountain ...

Society of the Snow offers a harrowing look at the strength ... crossing almost the entirety of the Andes mountain range as a result. Fernández, stuck back at camp, had to keep everybody ...

Originally published in 2009, Society of the Snow pulls together accounts of ... and Aconcagua, the tallest mountain in the Andes, is 6,962 metres – and so instead the pilots plotted a course ...

Where is the snowiest place on Earth? Snow enthusiasts have been discussing it for a long time, but there’s no consensus. Could it be the Great Lakes, where feet of lake-effect snow falls at a time?

CHILE’s towering El Plomo mountain ... C per decade since 1982. The Andes are an essential part of the region’s water cycle. The mountains store water as snow and ice during the winter ...

In late June, as a group of mountaineers descended a treacherous glacier high in the Peruvian Andes ... ice and snow that sweep their victims off their feet and wash them down the mountain.