Siachen: Pakistan

Pakistan, like India, has about 10,000 soldiers camped on this glacier. For a soldier, this is where hell freezes over, a 46-mile river of slow-moving ice surrounded by stupendous towers of snow. Temperatures swoon to 50 below, and sudden blizzards can bury field artillery in minutes. It is a piedmont glacier located in the Karakoram Range. It lies in the heavily glaciated Himalayan region known as the “Third Pole,” because mountain glaciers in this region contain more freshwater than is found anywhere else on Earth except for the polar ice caps. Siachen , often called the "Third Pole", is a mesmerising expanse that stretches across the eastern Karakoram Range in the mighty Himalayas. The region offers a surreal view of nature in its rawest and most formidable form. The Siachen Glacier is located in the Eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas, just northeast of Point NJ9842 where the LOC between India and Pakistan ends. The entire Siachen Glacier, with all major passes, has been under the administration of India since 1984 (Operation Meghdoot).