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How to kill a glacier [1]

Every year in from April to July, over one lakh visitors trek 20 km along the Ganga to reach at 14,000 feet above sea level, the Gomukh glacier, the source of one of India's mightiest rivers.

Publication Date: 
17/07/2006
Subhash Mishra [2]
India Today (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Gomukhi [4], Glaciers [5], Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand) [6], Ecology [7], Afforestation [8], Himalaya [9], Public Interest Litigation (PIL) [10], Allahabad (T) [11], High Court [12]
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