Tag: Andes

• Tuesday, December 4th 2018 - 18:41 UTC

  Japanese mountaineer aged 86 ready to take on Aconcagua again

  

  Yuichiro Miura, an 86 year old mountain climber from Japan, Monday promised to ‘hang on to the last’ in a bid to climb Argentina’s Mount Aconcagua in January.

• Monday, June 26th 2017 - 21:22 UTC

  'Alive' survivor Coche Inciarte writes his memoirs

  

  José Luis “Coche” Inciarte, one of the 16 survivors from the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash into the Andes mountains on Friday, October 13, 1972, has published his memoirs, in which he focuses on that life-changing event.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 06:00 UTC

  Fearing Andes volcano eruption, Chile and Argentina order mandatory evacuation

  

  Chilean and Argentine authorities declared a red alert and ordered the mandatory evacuation of a 25-km radius around the active Copahue volcano, which straddles the border between the two Andean nations.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 17:00 UTC

  Argentina/Chile working on tunnel under the Andes linking the Atlantic and Pacific

  

  By 2022 if all works out as planned the Aconcagua Bi-Oceanic corridor should link the Atlantic with the Pacific coast of South America facilitating trade and business opportunities.

• Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 22:28 UTC

  Brazilian tourists swamp Chilean winter resorts; 30% more in first half of 2012

  

  Chile’s Under Secretary for Tourism Jacqueline Plass reported that the arrival of Brazilian tourists had soared 30% in the first half of the year, attracted mostly to the ski centres along the Andes Mountains and to Patagonia.

• Wednesday, November 30th 2011 - 00:11 UTC

  Ecuadorean volcano spews red-hot rock and ash; populations abandon risk area

  

  Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano (‘throat of fire’ in indigenous Quechua language) spewed red-hot rock and ash Tuesday as officials upgraded their eruption warning level to orange and some at-risk communities began evacuations.

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 09:30 UTC

  Peruvian families to take compensation claim for Machu Picchu to Unesco

  

  Two Peruvian families who say the government never paid them compensation for the expropriation of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu and surrounding lands plan to take their complaint to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2011 - 16:26 UTC

  Chile winery expands in Argentina to double production in five years

  

  The Chilean wine company Viña Montes plans to invest 20 million US dollars in vineyards on the other side of the Andes in neighbouring Argentina, where it expects to double production over the next five years.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 08:59 UTC

  Mountain glaciers in the Andes are melting the fastest in 350 years

  

  Melting mountain glaciers are making sea levels rise faster now than at any time in the last 350 years, according to new research. Universities at Aberystwyth, Exeter and Stockholm looked at longer timescales than usual for their study.

• Wednesday, May 12th 2010 - 00:06 UTC

  Chile Gained 1.2 Square Kilometres Following the Earthquake

  

  The Chilean territory expanded 1.2 square kilometres into the Pacific following the February earthquake that ravaged the centre and south of the country, according to Sergio Barrientos, head of the University of Chile Seismologic Institute.