Mountaineering, Death and Climate Risk in the Patagonian Andes

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.”