Abstract
Recent atmospheric warming is profoundly affecting high‐mountain environments around the world. Glaciers are thinning and retreating, new and often unstable lakes are forming at glacier margins, other lakes are suddenly draining, and permafrost is degrading. These changes pose serious hazards to people and property in mountain valleys. Several tens of thousands of people were killed by landslides, floods, and debris flows from high‐mountain regions during the twentieth century, and there is concern that such events will increase as temperatures warm through the 21st century.
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