Kutiah Lungma Glacier
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| location | Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan , Pakistan | |
| Mountains | Karakoram | |
| length | 12 km | |
| width | ⌀ 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 50 ′ N , 75 ° 1 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Stak valley brook → Indus | |
The Kutiah-Lungma Glacier is a 12 km long and 3 km wide glacier in the Karakoram -Bergketten in Stak Valley District Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan , Pakistan . It is located in a valley, Stak Valley (also written as Staq), which is in Roundu County of Skardu Gilgit-Baltistan District. The glacier is located in the north of Nanga Parbat (the ninth highest peak in the world) about 20 kilometers from the north bank of the Indus River. The glacier can be reached from Skardu or Gilgit from June to September as it is about 10 km from the Gilgit-Skardu road. A dirt road from the Gilgit-Skardu-Straße at the confluence of the Indus and the Stak-Tal-Bach leads to the base camp of the glacier.
Expansion and retreat of the glacier
In 1955, the glacier had advanced approximately 12.8 kilometers towards the populated area within 91 days.
The glacier grew about one and a half kilometers every month - 5 meters per hour - and devoured several hectares of pastureland. According to the stories of the village elders, the glacier was moving forward at a noticeable speed, first growing vertically and then suddenly collapsing flat. Within a few months the glacier had reached the first hamlet, and fears were raised that the entire Stak valley could be engulfed by the glacier. In the minds of the indigenous population, the Kutia Lungma Glacier is considered female. He moved forward to meet his male counterpart, the glacier in the opposite Ganji Valley on the other side of the Indus. After the villagers had fetched pieces of ice from the other glacier and performed ritual acts, the glacier retreated several kilometers. Now the glacier is about 4 to 5 kilometers above Tookla, the last village in the Stak valley.
Individual evidence
- ^ Trango Travel & Tours: Kutiah Lungma Glacier Stak Valley Skardu Baltistan . In: Trango Travel . ( trangotravel.com [accessed August 17, 2017]).
- ↑ Naseeruddin Ahmad, Sarwar Rais: Himalayan Glaciers . APH Publishing, 1998, ISBN 978-81-7024-946-7 , pp. 61 ( preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Mick Conefrey: The Ghosts of K2 The Race for the Summit of the World's Most Deadly Mountain . Oneworld Publications, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78607-023-4 , pp. 183, 186–187 ( preview in Google Book search).