Saifee expedition, October 1999
Gomukh glacier was a surprising sight. Ever since my childhood, whenever
I heard the name of a glacier, I imagined a
huge mass of ice, daunting and rock solid. Gomukh glacier is different.
At first I even had some difficulty in identifying the glacier. The glacier
is visible in this picture behind the red pennants. What appears to be
rocks from a distance is actually ice, coloured grey because it is contaminated
with dust. The brown mountain in the upper left corner of the photograph
is the one which we had to go around to reach the expedition base camp.
If you go over the glacier to the right of the photograph you can reach
the Tapovan plateau.
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