Why it is more cooler in mountains?

Question

As we go up in the mountains we are closer to the sun. So it should be more and more hot as we climb. But why it is more cooler in the mountains?

Answer 1

for every 1,000 feet of altitude - you generally lose 3 degrees

yes - closer to the sun - and space (the final frontier)

was flying a private plane and listening to the FAA weather station -
above Daytona, Florida in Mid May - pilot at 41,000 ft reported
OAT (Outside Air Temperature) of -40 degrees

pop quiz - what are jet contrails(the white stuff) made of?
.............ice crystals!
by product of exhaust is water vapor - and it's cold up there!

Answer 2

The sun is 93 million miles away. If you're at the top of a 10,000 foot mountain, you're 0.000002% closer to the sun than at sea level. To get to even 0.5% closer to the sun, you would have to be standing on top of 245,000 10,000-foot mountains stacked on top of each other.

Even during a single day, as the earth rotates, we spin closer to the sun as we approach noon, then spin away from the sun again, to the tune of thousands of miles because of the earth's circumference. If you're on top of that (one 10k-foot) mountain at noon, it only takes a few minutes before you've spun away from the sun and some place at sea level to the west is closer to the sun than you... only a couple hundred miles away or so.

Answer 3

Because the atmosphere is thinner up there and the source of all that energy is further back down to earth,and the air has lost most of its energy on its way up,moisture and heat.
Its like steam rising from a pressure cooker,intense near to the cooker but further up it becomes diminish by losing most of its energy, that propelled it to rise,its the same thing at sea level,lots of air mass and water vapor and heat,all this is lost as its expands rises and then cools losses its energy in the form of clouds and then sinks back to earth in the form of were ever high pressure develops.
For every 1000 ft, temps fall a steady three degrees.
Gravity also keeps our atmosphere close to our world.so its not ("were the sun is") its how our planet and its mechanisms react.

Answer 4

The Clouds are closer than the sun and the trees makes it cool.