Deep in the mountains, Harriet Compston finds Ecuadorian communities opening their doors to travellers and sharing their ...

Hummingbirds are so fiercely territorial that fights between them are sometimes fatal. But one unusual species is living ...

Our Lady of the Rosary of Guápulo is a devotional image venerated in the outskirts of Quito, Ecuador, and was promoted by a ...

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Hari Budha Magar, from Canterbury, climbed Mount Aconcagua in the Andes mountain range on Saturday. Watford sign Norway goalkeeper Egil Selvik from Udinese for an undisclosed fee, on a three-and-a ...

He has now set another world first after making it to the top of the 6961 metre Mount Aconcagua, in the Andes mountain range in the Mendoza region of Argentina on Saturday. Mr Budha Magar, who is ...

He has now set another world first after making it to the top of the 6961 metre Mount Aconcagua, in the Andes mountain range in the Mendoza region of Argentina on Saturday. Mr Budha Magar ...

Panoramic view of the Virgin of El Panecillo statue with Quito city and the Andes mountains in the background in Ecuador Capital. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and ...

Image of a Vicuna with a mountain view back ground. Image by Dabit100 / David Torres Costales Riobamba, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 ...

Just two per cent of the original Choco forest remains, and it’s a bucket list location for many nature-lovers. Constructed in 2012 on the site of an old sawmill, Mashpi Lodge was built to protect the ...

It’s a three-hour drive across the equator from Quito (Mashpi has its own car and ... waterfalls and the western Andes slopes. The atmosphere create conditions for incredible biodiversity ...