{"id":9998,"date":"2023-04-20T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9998"},"modified":"2025-03-29T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:14:27","slug":"where-is-pindari-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/where-is-pindari-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Pindari Glacier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pindari Glacier:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the <strong>Bageshwar district of Uttarakhand in the Kumaon Himalayas<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It lies on the <strong>edge of Nanda Devi<\/strong> (7816 meters), which is the <strong>highest peak in India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zero Point of Pindari Glacier<\/strong> is situated at <strong>an altitude of 3660<\/strong> meters above sea level.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>source of the Pindari River<\/strong>, which <strong>meets the Alakananda River at Karnaprayag<\/strong> in the Garhwal district.<\/li>\n<li>On the <strong>right side of the Pindari Glacier lies the Kafani Glacier.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Other major glaciers in Uttarakhand<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Gangotri Glacier<\/li>\n<li>Milam Glacier<\/li>\n<li>Satopanth Glacier<\/li>\n<li>Namik Glacier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is an Avalanche?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Avalanches are <strong>masses of snow, ice, and rocks that fall rapidly down a mountainside<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>various kinds<\/strong> of avalanches, including <strong>rock avalanches<\/strong> (which consist of large segments of shattered rock), <strong>ice avalanches<\/strong> (which typically occur in the vicinity of a glacier), and <strong>debris avalanches<\/strong> (which contain a variety of unconsolidated materials, such as loose stones and soil).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0What is Kumaon Himalayas?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Kumaun Himalayas is the west-central section of the Himalayas in northern India, extending 200 miles (320 km) from the Sutlej River east to the Kali River. The range, comprising part of the Siwalik Range in the south and part of the Great Himalayas in the north, lies largely within the state of Uttarakhand, northwest of Nepal. It rises to 25,646 feet (7,817 metres) at Nanda Devi, the range\u2019s highest peak, and to 25,446 feet (7,756 metres) at Kamet, near the Chinese border.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/dehradun-news\/14-trekkers-including-13-us-nationals-safe-and-trekking-down-from-pindari-glacier-after-being-stranded-due-to-avalanche-in-uttarakhand-s-bageshwar-district-101682164490498.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Trekkers stranded at Pindari glacier due to avalanche, trekking down: Officials<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pindari Glacier is located in the Bageshwar district of Uttarakhand in the Kumaon Himalayas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}