by Marcos Mendoza
Climate change has affected Patagonian landscapes and ecosystems, reshaping mountaineering spaces. Indeed, as Gernot Wagner, a climate economist and affiliate of the Columbia Climate School, remarked to GlacierHub, climate change “adds uncertainty” to mountain spaces. “And while a landslide, or rockfall, might seem like a natural event, many are anything but—they are events often directly attributable to fossil fuel emissions.”
Quoted in: “Mountaineering, Death and Climate Risk in the Patagonian Andes” by Marcos Mendoza, State of the Planet (11 October 2024).