Shafat Glacier
The Shafat Glacier/Parkachik Glacier is a long glacier in the north eastern Himalayan Range situated south from Kargil and east from Srinagar on the right side of Kargil Zanskar Road near the border of the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in India.
The Shafat Glacier/Parkachik Glacier gives rise to the two mountain peaks of Nun and Kun which have the elevation of more than 6800 meters, and it provides a base to climb these mountain peaks. It lies at an average elevation of 4400 meters. The melt waters add to the flow of the Suru River which is a tributary of the Indus River.
The Shafat Glacier/Parkachik Glacier is a broken, ice falling glacier melting at an alarming rate due to the Global warming,
