In the December 2022 Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Editor’s Note
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, the author briefly discussed the challenges of delivering healthcare in regions impacted
by a changing climate. The author suggested that, due to these burgeoning challenges,
the relevance of wilderness and environmental medicine is now arguably greater than
ever. Dramatic environmental events such as the profound late spring and summer 2022
flooding in Pakistan caused by heavier than normal monsoon rains and the rapid glacial
melt following a severe heat wave are quite likely to become more frequent in and
around the mountain regions of Asia. The seemingly inexorable effects of what we have
come to term “climate change” has touched us all, and will, without doubt, continue
to affect our lives in major ways into the future. Peoples living among the many mountain
ranges of Asia—the Himalaya being the largest at approximately 2,400 km in length—and
those whose lives are influenced by these great ranges, will clearly not escape the
consequences brought by a changing climate.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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