A team of archaeologists has discovered an ancient labyrinthine system of tunnels hidden beneath the Peruvian city of Cusco, a former Inca stronghold nestled in the Andes mountains. The tunnel ...
This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. A legend from the Andes tells the tale of Kuka, a woman of such extraor dinary beauty that none in ...
I got altitude psychosis a few hundred meters from high camp as I scaled the frigid face of Huayna Potosí, one of the highest mountains in the Bolivian Andes. My optimism, my determination ...