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The glacier's melting waters are the main source of the Nubra River in the Indian region of Ladakh, which drains into the Shyok River. The Shyok in turn joins the 3000 kilometre-long Indus River which flows through Pakistan. Thus, the glacier is a major source of the Indus [52] and feeds the largest irrigation system in the world. [53]
The Drang-Drung Glacier (also called Durung Drung Glacier) is a mountain glacier near the Pensi La pass on the Kargil-Zanskar Road [1] in the Kargil district of Ladakh in India. [ 2 ] The Drang-Drung Glacier is likely to be the largest glacier in Ladakh after the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram Range , [ 3 ] with a maximum length of 23 km (14 ...
The Himalayan region of India is home to some of the most notable glaciers in the world, including the Siachen Glacier, the second-largest non-polar glacier on Earth and the largest glacier in India. The following is a list of the most important glaciers in India .
Ladakh (/ l ə ˈ d ɑː k /) [10] is a ... Batalik and Chorbatla, overlooking key locations on the Srinagar-Leh ... The glacier lies between the Saltoro Ridge ...
The Rimo massif lies in the northern part of the remote Rimo Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram range.It is located about 20 km northeast of the snout of the Siachen Glacier of Ladakh, India and its main summit, Rimo I (alternatively Rimo Kangri I) is the world's 71st highest mountain with an elevation of 7,385 metres (24,229 ft).
K12 lies to the southwest of the Siachen Glacier; the K12 glacier heads on its northeast slopes and feeds the Siachen. The western slopes of K12 drain to the Bilafond Glacier system, and thence to the Dansam River, and eventually the Indus River. K12 was used for training for the Mount Everest expedition of the Indian Army in 1985. [4]
Parachik Glacier is a mountain glacier in Kargil, Ladakh, India. Parkachik Glacier, located at Parkachik, is a mass of ice moving slowly down the Nun-Kun slopes. This ice mass falls finally into the Suru River, providing views of the huge ice-fall. [citation needed] Great slabs of ice periodically peel off the glacier's 300-foot high front wall.
All available maps and atlases (including a detailed delineation of the Siachen Muztagh's limits on the 1990 Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research "Karakoram Sheet 2" map) define the range as between the Shaksgam River on the north, the Urdok Glacier on the northwest (Urdok in Uyghur meaning duck), the Siachen Glacier on the southwest, the Teram ...