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Prior to the 2003 ceasefire, there was constant engagement. It was primarily artillery with the occasional foolhardy attempt to take some Indian positions. Such is the nature of the terrain there that Indian soldiers sometimes dropped aluminum tins filled with stones on the Pakistanis trying to...

That is correct. The Pakistanis are on the lower slopes of the ridge, sometimes directly below Indian positions. For all the Pakistani claims to be on the Siachen glacier, the truth is that they can't even see the glacier from their positions.

For a better understanding of where the Siachen glacier is and where the LOAC is...that’s the Saltoro ridge....

This was the Site of an earlier avalanche . Just to get an idea of what the rain is like.

Indian soldiers hold the heights of the Saltoro ridge . All the heights they need to deny Pakistanis a toe hold. They have no choice of sticking to less risky areas. Some of those heights require extraordinary measures just to keep supplied. Like all frontline positions, they are in direct line...

I think the confusion is because of the term Siachen glacier being used very loosely. The avalanches are not happening on the glacier itself but on the mountains of the Saltoro range west of the glacier. It is the heights of those ridges that Indian troops occupy and like any mountains, there is...