Heydi Paco and Jhonny Pacheco spent three days climbing to the top of the Illimani Mountain in Cordillera Real. Heydi Paco and Jhonny Pacheco have a taste for the extraordinary. So much so that ...

Mount Illimani, where an Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashed more than two decades ago. Wikimedia Commons/Hernan Payrumani More than three decades after Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 impacted ...

11, 2001. But it was another flight that caught Futrell’s eye: Eastern Air Lines Flight 980, which took off from Paraguay for Miami in 1985 but crashed on Mount Illimani in western Bolivia.

Many experts, including those at the NTSB, thought finding the flight recorders would be impossible, given the conditions on Mount Illimani. It is unclear when, where or how the evidence will be ...

Recovery efforts failed at the time due to the high altitude of the crash, just south of Mount Illimani -- at an elevation of 19,600 feet, it was the highest-elevation plane crash site ever seen.

In 2006 a climbing team on Mount Illimani, Bolivia’s second-highest peak, discovered the wreckage of a Boeing 727. The Eastern Air Lines plane had crashed soon after takeoff in 1985, killing all ...

Eastern suffered another disastrous accident in La Paz, Bolivia, on Jan. 1, 1985, when a 727 flew into Mount Illimani. Existing Ground Proximity Warning Systems (GPWS) were not providing critical ...

He read about the unsolved crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 980 into the side of Bolivia's Mount Illimani in 1985. With no black box or bodies found, there were plenty of conspiracy theories.

In the small village of Khapi, below the stunning - and still snow-covered - Mount Illimani, the sense of anxiety is profound. An idea has taken root there - that those who have caused the snow to ...