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A snow avalanche cascades down along Chaukhamba glacier, as seen aerially in the Garhwal Himalaya. Avalanche cascades down along Chaukhamba glacier, as seen aerially in the Garhwal Himalaya Chaukhamba and lateral Kedarnath glacier stunning aerial view of Garhwal Himalaya, with emerald green glacial lakes. A flight over the moraine of the glacier reveals a vast field of uneven rock mass and glacier debris consisting of stones, small green emerald lakes, black icy walls and crevasses blocked off by boulders and stones. A very rough and uneven - an almost inhospitable terrain, and yet the starting point of fabulous high altitude countryside in the Uttarakhand mountains. Fresh snowfall up the glacier dwarves / drawfs the tents and people standing next to them, in this vast landscape that humbl