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What are the high altitude environmental hazards ? Explain with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 2024, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2016
  • Environmental Geography

High-altitude environmental hazards are threats peculiar to the zone above roughly 2,500–3,000 m, where thin air, cold, snow, ice and frozen ground — not rainfall — become the working agents.

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