Pete Oxford / Alpaca head portrait{Lama pacos} Andes, Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Mountain viscacha {Lagidium viscacia}, near Andahuaylas, Andes, Peru, South America

Pete Oxford / Paramo wetland habitat with {Polylepis incana} trees. El Angel reserve, Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Feather mimic caterpillar found in Macipucuna Cloudforest Andes, Ecuador, South America. Unidentified species

Pete Oxford / Lighting strikes the Andes, Altiplano region, SW Bolivia, South America

Pete Oxford / Alpaca (Lama pacos) baby, Andes Mountains, South America

Pete Oxford / Chagra cowboys herding cattle and burning the hillsides to keep cattle on the move and rejuvenate the pasture at a hacienda during the annual overnight cattle round-up, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Chagra cowboy portrait with roses in his hat band, on an overnight ride at a hacienda to herd cattle, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Two Chagra cowboys on an overnight ride at a hacienda to herd cattle, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) adult male in prime colors named Taita is 12 years old, Condor Huasi Project, Hacienda Zuleta, Cayambe, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) adult male raising ruff to keep head warm, Condor Huasi Project, Hacienda Zuleta, Cayambe, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Vicuna (Vicugna vicugna) pair, a wild camelid of the high Andes exploited for its extremely fine wool, Pampas Galeras Nature Reserve, Peru

Tui De Roy / Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) femalenamed Paccha five years old feeding on, carrion, captive animal, Condor Huasi Project, Hacienda Zuleta, Cayambe, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Tungurahua Volcano erupting, near Banos, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Parincota, elevation 6,232 meters, Lauca National Park, Andes Mountains, Chile

Doug Allan / Laguan Verde, Andes, Bolivia. Extinct Inca volcano behind. 4300m.

Doug Wechsler / Pacific giant glass frog (Centrolenella geckoideum). NW Andes (2550m), Carchi Province, Ecuador, South America

Pete Oxford / Frailejones {Espeletia pycnophylla} - tall plants and {Espeletia sp.} - short plants. El Angel Ecological Reserve, 3700 m above sea level. Paramo habitat. Andes, NE Ecuador. Endemic plants to northern...

Doug Allan / Snow covered east ridge of Illampu Cordilera Real, Andes, Bolivia

Pete Oxford / Spectacled bear {Tremarctos ornatus} Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Machu Picchu ruins Andes, Peru. South America

Pete Oxford / Llama in mist at Machu Picchu, Andes, Peru

Pete Oxford / Harvesting wheat in the Andes. Ecuador, South America.

Doug Wechsler / Sub tropical montane forest at 1,500m. Western. Andes, Ecuador

JIM CLARE / Spectacled bear feeding on puya in the Andes, SE Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Sword billed hummingbird {Ensifera ensifera} feeds from Datura flower. Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Spectacled bear {Tremarctos ornatus} Andes, South America

JIM CLARE / Spectacled bear cubs in den {Tremarctos ornatus} Andes, Ecuador

Morley Read / Slow motion aerial tracking over the Rio Abanico in flood after heavy rain, Amazonian slopes of the Andes, Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of the Rio Abanico cascading over boulders, Amazonian slopes of the Andes, Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion panning shot of the Rio Abanico cascading over boulders, Amazonian slopes of the Andes, Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of the Rio Abanico cascading over boulders, Amazonian slopes of the Andes, Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Panning shot of trees in mist, Amazon rainforest, Rio Abanico Valley, Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador. 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of the Rio Abanico in flood, Amazonian slopes of the Andes, Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial tilt shot of a waterfall surrounded by rainforest, Amazonian slopes of the Andes, Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial tracking shot looking over rainforest canopy, Amazonian slopes of the Andes, Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial view of a village on the Amazonian slopes of the Andes, Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Panning aerial shot looking over Quito, from Panecillo mountain with Statue of the Virgin in foreground to the old historic centre, Ecuador, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion shot of a waterfall in the Rio Pita Valley, north of Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuadorian Andes, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial tracking shot along a muddy road through cloud forest, Amazonian slopes of the Andes, Napo Province, Ecuador, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial shot tracking over a suspension footbridge crossing the Rio Cosanga, Amazonian slopes of the Andes, Napo Province, Ecuador, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial tracking shot of a high-altitude bog (4,000m), such bogs generate peat over time, thus capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, near Papallacta, Ecuadorian Andes, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Time-lapse shot looking towards Sumaco Volcano (4,000m), Eastern Cordillera above Papallacta, Ecuador, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Sincholagua Volcano (4,899m) after a heavy snowfall, the summit now only occasionally has snow, and its glaciers have melted due to climate change, Cotopaxi National Park, Ecuador, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial panning shot looking over Sangolqui, a suburb of Quito, with many volcanoes visible in background, including snowcapped Cotopaxi, Ecuador, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of an Andean lapwing (Vanellus resplendens) walking in high paramo landscape, looking for predators, Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuadorian Andes. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of an Andean lapwing (Vanellus resplendens) walking in high paramo landscape, looking for predators, Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuadorian Andes. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Timelapse of clouds passing over the glaciers on the summit of Cotopaxi Volcano (5,897m) in the Ecuadorian Andes, 2017. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial shot of a group of wild ponies (Equus caballus) in paramo landscape at the base of Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuadorian Andes, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Group of wild ponies (Equus caballus) in paramo landscape at the base of Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuadorian Andes. (non-ex)

Morley Read / View of the snowcapped Cotopaxi Volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes, 2018. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a stream flowing through montane rainforest in the Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial shot tracking over the biologically diverse Paquisha Alla Tepuy plateau, showing endemic vegetation of dwarf palms, bromeliads and shrubs, Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Panning shot of bromeliads growing in the species rich area of Alto Paquisha, a Tepuy in the Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Time-lapse of a band of cumulus clouds forming over the Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Time-lapse of a band of cumulus clouds forming over the Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Bomarea (Alstroemeriaceae) flowering on Paquisha Alta Tepuy in the Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Nick Garbutt / Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) male flying over forest. Estancia Olga Teresa, Patagonia, Chile. December 2018.

Nick Garbutt / Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) male in flight. Estancia Olga Teresa, Patagonia, Chile. December 2018.

David Pike / Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) juvenile on building, Farellones, Chile.

David Pike / Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) juvenile in flight, Farellones, Chile.

David Pike / Andean condor, (Vultur gryphus), on building, Farellones, Chile.

David Pike / Andean condor, (Vultur gryphus), on building, Farellones, Chile.

David Pike / Andean condor, (Vultur gryphus), Farellones, Chile.

David Pike / Andean condor, (Vultur gryphus), Farellones, Chile.

David Pike / Andean condor, (Vultur gryphus) in flight, Farellones, Chile.

David Pike / Andean condor, (Vultur gryphus) male, Farellones, Chile .

David Pike / Andean condor, (Vultur gryphus) against blue sky, Farellones, Chile.

David Pike / Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) juvenile, Farellones, Chile.

Ingo Arndt / Sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) male nectaring on Red floripontio (Brugmansia sanguinea) flower. Eastern Andean slope, Ecuador. October.

Ingo Arndt / White-bellied woodstar (Chaetocercus mulsant) and Booted racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) female. Hummingbirds necaring on flower. Western slope of Andes, Ecuador. October.

Ingo Arndt / Long-tailed Sylph (Aglaiocercus kingi) male feeding on flower, Andes, Ecuador

Ingo Arndt / Booted racket-tail hummingbird (Ocreatus underwoodii) male flying below flower. Western slope of Andes, Ecuador. October.

Ingo Arndt / Brown inca (Coeligena wilsoni) hummingbird nectaring on Fuchsia (Fuchsia sp) flower. Western slope of Andes, Ecuador. October.

Ingo Arndt / Fawn-breasted brilliant (Heliodoxa rubinoides) hummingbird nectaring on flower. Western slope of Andes, Ecuador. October.

Ingo Arndt / Purple-throated woodstar (Calliphlox mitchellii) hummingbird nectaring on flower. Western slope of Andes, Ecuador. October.

Ingo Arndt / Rufous-tailed hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl) nectaring on flower. Western slope of Andes, Ecuador. October.

Ingo Arndt / Purple-throated woodstar (Philodice mitchellii) nectaring on Banana (Musa sp) flower. Western slope of Andes, Ecuador. October.

Ingo Arndt / White-bellied woodstar (Chaetocercus mulsant) hummingbird nectaring on Banana (Musa sp) flower. Western slope of Andes, Ecuador. October.

Ingo Arndt / Andean emerald (Amazilia franciae) nectaring on Banana (Musa sp) flower. Western slope of Andes, Ecuador. October.

JIM CLARE / Andean condor, (Vultur gryphus), juvenile female, Near Santiago, Chile, South America.

JIM CLARE / Andean condor, (Vultur gryphus), juvenile female, near Santiago, Chile, South America.

JIM CLARE / Black flowerpiercer (Diglossa humeralis) a nectar thief, piercing Angel's trumpet flower (Brugmansia sanguinea), Azuay, Andes, Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Black flowerpiercer (Diglossa humeralis) a nectar thief, piercing Angel's trumpet flower (Brugmansia sanguinea) Azuay, Andes, Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Sparkllng violetear hummingbird, (Colibri coruscans). Azuay, Andes, Southern Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Ecuadorian Hillstar hummingbird, (Oreotrochilus chimborazo) feeding on chuquiragua or Flower of the Andes, (Chuquiragua sp) with flower mites on the beak. The mites feed on nectar and flower tissues a...

JIM CLARE / Sparkllng violetear hummingbird, (Colibri coruscans), Azuay, Andes, Southern Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Sparkllng violetear hummingbird, (Colibri coruscans), displaying, Azuay, Andes, Southern Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Sparkllng violetear hummingbird, (Colibri coruscans), displaying, Azuay, Andes, Southern Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Guinea pigs, (Cavia porcellus), which are eaten on special occasions, in house at remote community of La Granja, Azuay, Andes, Southern Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Guinea pig (cuy) (Cavia porcellus) cooking in house at remote paramo community of La Granja, Azuay, Andes, Southern Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus), which are eaten on special occasions, in house at remote community of La Granja, , Azuay, Andes, Southern Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Bridge made from Polylepis wood, remote community of La Granja, in paramo. Azuay, Andes, Southern Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Set-up for filming inside house at remote paramo community of La Granja, Azuay, Andes, Southern Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Woman with guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) which are eaten on special occasions, in house in remote paramo community of La Granja, Azuay, Andes, Southern Ecuador.

JIM CLARE / Cooking over fire of endangered Polylepis wood, showing wood store, remote paramo community of La Granja, Azuay, Andes, Southern Ecuador.