ABSTRACT
Pindari glacier, a tangle of massive ice chunks. At the 17,700 ft crest of the glacier lies Traill’s Pass, so named after the first British commissioner in Kumaon, G. W. Traill, who crossed it in 1830. The pass divided the ancient kingdoms of Kumaon and Garhwal. Further north, close to the Tibetan border, lies the remote Hindu Bhotia settlement of Milam and above it a glacier of the same name which feeds the Gori Ganga river, another source of the Ganges.
