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High-Altitude Mountaineering and Natural Hazards
Despite increased comfort and improved safety, high-altitude expeditions are still a risky thing. Given the ongoing and intensifying climate change, high mountains are particularly prone to changes in the climate regime, e.g. the wind and precipitation patterns. How do these climate patterns change? Do potential changes affect high-altitude mountaineering via changes in the Natural Hazard portfolio, e.g. snow storm intensity, wind storms or avalanche frequency? As a passionate climber and mountaineer, together with Erik Kusch I try to find answers for such questions (also see under Opportunities).
You might also be interested in our presentation at EGU 2025:
Top: Mortality rates of individual Nepal Himalayan peaks (> 7,000 m asl) https://www.himalayandatabase.com/.
Left: Exemplary reanalysis data of air tempertature downscaled to individual peaks. Wind speed data comes from ERA5 (https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-v5).
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