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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

India TV News Desk Published : Nov 30, 2013 17:37 IST, Updated : Jun 16, 2014 7:45 IST


The Siachen glacier also boasts of the world's highest helipad built by India at Point Sonam, 21,000 feet (6,400 m) above the sea level, to supply its troops. India also installed the world's highest telephone booth on the glacier.

Aside from the Indian and Pakistani military presence, the glacier region is unpopulated.  

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