(CNN) --Mention Siachen to anyone bar ... and many soldiers suffer from high-altitude pulmonary and cerebral edema, headaches and hypertension. The glacier is the most prominent feature of the ...

Siachen Glacier, 71km long and one of the world ... a place that can test human endurance against the rigours of high altitude and turbulent terrain. But this is also the worlds highest ...

towering over the Siachen Glacier at an altitude of 5,450 metres (17,880 ft). Led by Captain Sanjay Kulkarni (who retired in 2016 as a lieutenant general), the platoon of hardy Kumaoni soldiers ...

Mountaineering expeditions led by Col. Narinder ‘Bull’ Kumar to the Siachen glacier and Saltoro range as Commandant of the High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) in the early 1980s helped ...

Siachen Glacier is known as the highest-altitude battle site in the world and is situated near the Indo-Pak Line of Control. It is the largest glacier in India and the second-largest in the world.

The Siachen glacier, located at an altitude of 18,000 to 20,000 feet in the Karakoram mountain range of Ladakh, is known as the highest militarised zone in the world. Soldiers stationed here face ...

The Siachen glacier, situated near the Indo-Pak Line of Control in the Karakoram range is known as the highest militarised zone in the world. An Agniveer soldier died in the line of duty in ...