The Tibetan plateau is known as the “roof of the world” J Marshall / Alamy Stock Photo
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Earth has plenty of places that are difficult to live in. Hot and dry deserts like the Sahara and Atacama; cold and windy deserts like Antarctica; the constantly shifting ice packs of the Arctic. Nowadays humans live in pretty much all of them, venturing far outside the mosaic of grasses, trees and lakes…
