Here are 13 of the most astonishing, must-read disaster books of all time… The Associated Press Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, by Piers Paul Read In 1972, a small plane crashed in the ...

TINO CARNEVALE: It's amazing to think that many of our favourite vegetables originally came from the Andes in South America ... you can go a little bit deeper because all the tubers you eat ...

Tracing the spine of the Andes, the once heavily trafficked stretch ... With the help of archaeologist Kevin Floerke and adventurer John Leivers (best known as the tough-as-nails Australian ...