Gangotri Glacier

The Gangotri Glacier is a valley glacier in Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand, India, near the border with Tibet, and is one of the primary sources of the Ganges river system, holding an estimated volume of more than 27 cubic kilometers of ice. It is about 30 kilometers long and 2 to 4 kilometers wide, ranging in elevation from about 4,120 to 7,000 meters, and originates in a cirque below Chaukhamba, the highest peak of the Gangotri Group, before flowing northwest past peaks including Shivling, Thalay Sagar, Meru and Bhagirathi III. Its snout, known as Gomukh or Gaumukh, marks the source of the Bhagirathi river, a headwater of the Ganges, and is an important Hindu pilgrimage site reached on foot from the town of Gangotri, about 18 kilometers away. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/