Tag Archives: Ganga River
Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update l
First steps towards Gangotri Glacier involve words from an impeccable source. For six decades Swami Sunderland has climbed, wandered, and worshipped the great bodies of ice and stone from his simple home in Gangotri. He arrived here and was held … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change in Asia, Debra Tan, Expedition, Ganga River, Ganges, Gangotri, Garwhal, Glaciers' Breath, Himalayas, Ice, Indian Himalayas, Jeff Fuchs, Uttarakhand, Water
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The Glaciers’ Breath ll Expedition – The Ganges’ Source
Sources of rivers are rarely seen or acknowledged and it is perhaps more clearly in the sources that one can feel the absolute core vibrancy and life of what is known as पानी – paanee – ‘water’ in Hindi. It is said often in India that “water is life”. This journey is to travel to a source of so much life. Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Ganga River, Ganges, Ganges River, glacier, Glaciers, Glaciers' Breath, Global warming, himalaya, Ice, Jeff Fuchs, mountains, Tea, Temples of Ice, Water
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