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The camp cook prepares tea on a gas stove. Gas is carried up on Himalayan expeditions so as not to use wood and deprive the local forest environment. Poories being fried for breakfast by the camp quartermaster chef. Massive glacier seracs can be seen in the distance, from the Bandarpunch peak glacier. This is permanent snow seen at the beginning of winter when it has still not snowed, so the ice seen is actually tens of centuries old, even ancient actually. Are those Snow Partridge one can see at around 8 minutes into the video? Red-billed Choughs (crow family birds) can be seen scavenging around the camp-site once the trekkers have broken camp and left. Scenes around a camp the morning it is to be dismantled, the end of the glacier, Choughs, going away... This footage is part of the broad
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