CUZCO, Peru -- After hiking around the Andes Mountains for a week, climbing Pinnacle Mountain is child's play. My son Ethan treated me to a trip to Peru for my birthday from Oct. 27-Nov. 2. It was my ...

After you say goodnight to Lima, hop on a quick flight to Cusco to explore the Sacred Valley: home to Peru's world wonder, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Villagers harvest salt from five-century-old family ponds using an ancient Quechua principle of collective labor ...

No, it wasn’t built by aliens. But accountants? Maybe. Researchers used drones to get another look at the "Band of Holes" along Monte Sierpe, and their work suggests that the Inca may have ...

New evidence may resolve a longstanding archaeological puzzle in Peru. A vast line of thousands of holes dug into a ridge in the foothills of the Andes Mountains served as a regional marketplace for ...

From Atacama to Patagonia, Chile makes extremes easy with dark-sky nights, glacier days and coastal dinners.

The Andes Mountains are the world's longest mountain range. Learn which South American countries the massive Andes Mountains ...

Nestled on a mountain ridge in the Urubamba Valley, Machu Picchu was built as a palace that was part of a larger royal estate belonging to the Inca emperor Pachacuti (reigned ca. 1420–1472). A team of ...

The body of a miner missing since Saturday in a flooded West Virginia coal mine has been found, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morissey announced Thursday morning. Morissey identified the man as Steve ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to announce Thursday a list of several “nation-building projects” that the federal government is fast-tracking. And one of them is a proposed nickel mine in northern ...