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Know about Siachen, the world's highest battlefield

New Delhi: The Siachen glacier, located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalaya Mountains, is one of the five largest glaciers in the Karakoram, situated at an average altitude of 18,000 feet above sea



The nearest civilian settlement is the village of Warshi, 10 miles downstream from the Indian base camp.  

The region is also highly remote with limited road connectivity. On the Indian side, roads go only as far as the military base camp at Dzingrulma 72 km from the top of the glacier.

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