Andes Mountains news stories on Newser

Ash-Spewing Volcano Hits Argentina Tourism

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:23:27 CDT

The 100 million tons of ash and rock spewed by an Andean volcano has meant hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for communities accustomed to profiting from the dramatic mountain landscape. The Cordon Caulle volcano opened a new gash along a ridge just across the border and upwind from...

Melting Glaciers Reveal Remains, Wreckage in Andes

Mark Russell — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:30:11 CST

Melting glaciers all along the Andes are giving up their secrets, revealing plane crashes and climbing accidents in a boon to historians and explorers, reports the New York Times . Among the recent finds: a plane that crashed in 1990, a 1947 British plane crash, an Austrian climber, and three Inca...

No Survivors in Venezuela Crash

Kevin Spak — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:47:00 CST

Search helicopters today found what was left of the Venezuelan passenger plane that crashed yesterday with 46 people aboard. No survivors were found in the wreckage, which was nestled among the Andes mountains at an altitude of 13,000 feet, the AP reports. The plane crashed into the mountain head-first,...

Gates Sees Stars, Donates $10M to 'Scope

Wesley Oliver — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:05:28 CST

Bill Gates and Bill Simonyi—space geeks and Microsoft billionaires both—are donating $30 million to the Chilean-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the Guardian reports. The $400 million endeavor, scheduled to be working in 2015, will snap pics of the sky with a 3,200 megapixel digital camera every 15...