The answer might surprise you. The snowiest place is: the Andes Mountains in southern Chile, where about 2,000 inches of snow ...

A snow shadow develops in Albuquerque when down sloping east winds pour into the Rio Grande Valley from the East Mountains.

But "Society of the Snow" looks at how a Uruguayan rugby ... lost its wings when it hit a mountain ridge in the Andes and crash-landed on a glacier. The passengers were an amateur rugby team ...

The key mountain highway connecting Argentina ... An estimated 6.500 trucks were stuck on both sides of the Andes since last Tuesday when heavy snow fall blocked access to the tunnel which is ...

In parts of the Andes and other mountain ranges, including the Rocky Mountains, many people depend on mountain snow and glacier runoff for water. It is estimated that shrinking glaciers and snow ...

Huascaran National Park Snow-capped peaks in the peruvian Andes, Huascaran National Park Mountain Villagers in traditional clothing, at the Q'eswachaka bridge festival, Peru Panorama of Mountains ...

Álvaro Mangino Schmid, one of the 16 survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash ... for never stopping working on the mountain, constantly melting snow to be able to supply water to his companions ...

This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes lava to erupt out of the gap that is left. As it cools down ...