![]() But, the lack of bilateral trust and the overwhelming strategic importance of this long stretch of the glacier finally got the proposal canned. ![]() In fact, it was the frustrating deaths on both sides due to the icy weather that led India and Pakistan to consider a proposal to turn this area into a peace park. As the saying goes, Don’t be Gama (great wrestler) in the land of Lama. Acclimatisation is indispensable to survive in such harsh weather. Besides, the surroundings are full of crevices with bottomless pits. Over there, life gets tested every moment as even the hottest cup of soup turns stone cold in just a few seconds and where physical movement is like walking with a lead cast in the feet. Since the Siachen glacier is located more than 20,000 ft above the mean sea level where the temperature could plummet at times to minus 60☌elsius, the conditions there have taken more human lives than through enemy engagement.Īgniveer Gawate Akshay Laxman died in the line of duty on October 22 while serving with his unit that was deployed to guard Siachen. It’s wedged between Pakistan on the one side and China on the other. The strategically located 72 km-long glacier held by India is part of the unfinished business of partition between India and Pakistan after Independence. ![]() NEW DELHI: Siachen, the world’s highest battlefield, was back in news recently after a young soldier in his twenties lost his life due to the vagaries of the inclement weather there. ![]()
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