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It's cold on top of mountains because expanding air becomes cooler by adiabatic expansion. If you let the air out of your tires, the valve stem becomes cold. It's the same phenomenon.
Mountain tops also have less overlying water vapor, so they are cooled by radiation to space more strongly than the low lands.
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