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The Siachen Glacier and Saltoro Ridge make-up the highest battlefield in the world south of the North Pole. It is extreme cold conditions on and around Siachen; and it is essential to control it in order to prevent misadventures through the northern corridor into Kargil, Leh and Dras. Pakistan attacked India using the northern corridor through the passes along Saltoro Ridge in 1999. This ignited the war in Kargil and elsewhere along the LoC.
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I remember watching a news cast on BBC in which they were interviewing an officer who had been on the Siachen glacier (I think Pakistani, don't remember), and he was telling the interviewer that his unit had experienced only one casualty due to enemy action, and numerous others due to pulmonary edema brought on by the altitude.
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CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana
Pulmonary edema is not the main cause of death on Siachen and Saltoro; frost bite due to the -40℃ to -60℃ temperatures on the Glacier and on the Ridge. The altitude contributes to the cause of this mass casualties. This is why both India and Pakistan withdraw their forces from those heights in winter and 're-man those posts again in spring SGT (Join to see)
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Those are amazing conditions under which to conduct any activity at all, and all much to more so when soldiering.
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I will have to delve into this more later. We were just talking about this the other day in one of my class discussions
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CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana
I am ready to assist your discussion in any way Maj Marty Hogan ; just let me know when, how and where.
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