Read more Andes stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3397/andes.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorFri, 25 May 2012 19:19:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/19698/plane-crashes-in-venezuela-46-aboard.htmlRob Quinn<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=76618&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401021501' border='0' />A plane crashed in western Venezuela with 46 people aboard today, AFP reports. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the airliner soon after it took off from the Andean city of Merida bound for Caracas. People in the mountainous Coyado del Condor region reported seeing a plane go down. Merida's...A passenger plane is reported to have crashed in Venezuela's Andean region with 46 people aboard.http://www.newser.com/story/19698/plane-crashes-in-venezuela-46-aboard.htmlThu, 21 Feb 2008 21:40:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/7800/meteor-hole-sickens-peruvians.htmlJane Yager<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=28473&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401031940' border='0' />Hundreds of Peruvians have complained of headaches, nausea, and vomiting since a fireball plummeting from space left a deep crater in a remote area of the Andes Saturday night. Witnesses say the 20-foot-deep crater spews noxious gases that sicken those who come near it, BBC reports. Animals have also fallen...People watch a crater in Carangas, Puno, Peru, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, caused by a supposed meteorite that crashed in southern Peru over the weekend causing hundreds of people to suffer headaches, nausea and respiratory problems, a health official said Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/La Razon, Miguel Carrasco)http://www.newser.com/story/7800/meteor-hole-sickens-peruvians.htmlWed, 19 Sep 2007 09:02:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/7179/sacrificed-maiden-on-display.htmlColleen Barry<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=25622&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401032306' border='0' />A girl once sacrificed to the gods is now on display in an Argentine museum, CNN reports. “La Doncella” (Spanish for “the Maiden”), displayed in an icy chamber, has the same calm gaze and gray shawl she wore when she died 500 years ago. Hundreds of visitors are coming daily...People look at the mummy "La Doncella" or "The Maiden" at the High Mountain Archeological Museum (MAAM) in Salta, Argentina, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007. "The Maiden," who is on display for the first time since her discovery in 1999, was approximately 15-years-old when she and two younger children died as human sacrifices to Gods by the Incas more than 500 years ago on the top of the Llullaillaco volcano. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)http://www.newser.com/story/7179/sacrificed-maiden-on-display.htmlSat, 08 Sep 2007 15:39:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/3400/missing-five-acre-lake.htmlColleen Barry<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=8653&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401034526' border='0' />A 100-foot-deep lake in the Chilean Andes vanished sometime between March and May, and scientists are stumped. The best guess in the case of the missing body of water is that it drained through cracks in the lakebed, but geologists have no idea where those cracks, usually caused by earthquakes,...This undated combo image released by CONAF, Chile's National Forest Service, shows a 2-hectare lake at the Huemules National Park that mysteriously disappeared in the southernmost region of Magallanes, Chile. Park rangers on a routine monthly patrol discovered in late May, 2007, that the lake had dried up. A group of geologists is being sent to the area in the next few days to try to determine what happened to the lake . (AP Photo/CONAF)http://www.newser.com/story/3400/missing-five-acre-lake.htmlFri, 22 Jun 2007 04:25:15 CDT