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See the deep snow-pack of the peaks, glaciers and ridges of the western Himalaya, to understand where summer snow-melt rivers get their waters from, and winter-time water runs in our rivers, in north India. One look at the deep snow pack on Jogin, Auden's Col, the Gangotri peaks and the ranges around and you get a good picture of why the Himalaya are so important for India See a close-up study of a Himalayan glacier, with tall seracs, the muddy moraine, crevassed portion of the glacier and the rubble below it. See a winter-time sacred and secret view of wildfilmsindia's Himalaya! What a corniced top the summit of Rudragaira is, with a saddle of ice to reach it. And what a massive Himalayan glacier lies to the north of Rudragaira peak, fed by the Gangotri range peaks, with fields of wrinkle
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