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Valley between steep bright red slopes streaked with green grass, a winding red track along the floor, framed by dark rocks and tussock grass under grey cloud. — El Valle Rojo: a jewel of colours in the Peruvian Andes Maxime Grandin

Rugged mountain with tilted, folded rock bands in brown and grey, its summit in cloud, above a turquoise lake, a winding stream, green meadows and a few small buildings. — Textures of the Andean Cordillera Marius Schulz

High mountain slope with grey scree and dark rock outcrops above a patchwork of yellow-green grass and grey bare ground, under white clouds. — Mosaic of Periglacial Textures Beneath Ausangate Katrine Trottier

Wetland of bright green cushion plants and golden grass threaded with winding pools of brown water, with a few white animals grazing in the distance. — Where Groundwater Threads Stitch Andean Bofedales Katrine Trottier

Aerial view of a deep, barren brown canyon in arid hills, with tilted and folded rock layers in its dark slopes and a pale dry riverbed winding below, under a cloudy sky. — Folded Early Cretaceous rocks in the Andean forearc Ambrosio Vega Ruiz

Aerial view of a patch of snow sculpted into dense rows of sharp pointed blades, ending at an edge of brown gravelly ground with a few stones. — Penitentes' labyrinth Sebastian Vivero

Aerial view of a volcano summit with a milky pale crater lake and ice-streaked crater walls, a chain of snowy craters leading towards a distant snow-capped cone under a blue sky. — Volcano Copahue and Callaqui - Southern Andes Jan Oliver Eisermann

Dense herd of shaggy cream-coloured alpacas packed together, several facing the camera, in front of a stone wall and a snow-capped volcano with red-brown slopes under dark clouds. — Lovely but Deadly Alpacas Jose Schreckinger

Lone climber in a yellow jacket roped up on a vast sloping snowfield beneath towering blue-white ice cliffs and crevassed glacier, the figure tiny against the ice. — Glaciers at the Equator Jose Schreckinger

Field of pale grey rock ridges with orange-brown tops, all sculpted in the same direction like frozen waves, stretching to distant mountains under a deep blue sky with small clouds. — A volcanic change of matter: ashes to waves Julien Cornet

Dry stony plain dotted with low green shrubs looking out over a wide white salt flat, with a range of bare mountains and volcanic peaks behind under streaky white clouds. — Volcanoes and salars of the Altiplano Robin Lacassin

Small group of people on a bare desert ridge looking out over a vast landscape of folded, rounded hills in shades of beige, ochre and grey, below darker mountains. — Field work in the Atacama desert Robin Lacassin

Bleached grey skeletons of dead trees standing in golden grassland with green bushes, a lake and snow-capped mountains in the background under a cloudy sky. — Life goes on after wildfire Fabian Reiser

Two saddled brown donkeys grazing on golden tussock grass on a high mountain slope, with bare ridges dropping away to a wide hazy basin of pale alluvial fans below. — Transportation in the Andes Mitch D'Arcy

Panorama of a dark thunderstorm cloud pouring a grey curtain of rain over a mountain range, seen from a gravel track with a white pickup truck, its doors open, in the foreground. — Storm over the Sierra de Aconquija Mitch D'Arcy

Animated sequence: a person stands beside a metal tripod frame set up on stony ground with tufts of dry grass, in front of bare brown mountains and a white glacier under a deep blue sky. — Installation of an automatic weather station in the semi-arid Andes of Chile (gif animation) Simon Gascoin

Road cutting through a thrust ramp anticline: thin buff rock layers stand vertical on the left and bend sharply over to the right, above grey scree and an asphalt road with a yellow line. — Thrust ramp anticline Derya Gürer

White disc-shaped GPS antenna on a pole with a yellow cable, beside white sacks on a rocky summit, overlooking a vast brown high plain and distant snow-dusted mountains. — Trimble at 5300m Nicolas Le Corvec

Row of snow-covered peaks with glaciers rising above a band of low cloud and a hazy valley, seen beyond a green grassy slope in the foreground. — Last peruvian glaciers Giulia Curatola

Aerial view of a snow-covered volcano summit with a round, snow-rimmed crater, crevassed ice on its flanks and white clouds drifting over brown land below. — Volcano in the tropics Brenner Silva

Dirt road and a braided stream running side by side along the floor of a deep, bare valley with pink, ochre and brown slopes. — Fluvial landslope dynamics in a high mountain valley with an international road Xavier Bodin

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