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Despite best efforts six casualties, which include four soldiers and two civilian porters succumbed to extreme hypothermia, said the press release.
The world’s highest battlefield, Siachen Glacier is on the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas. The average altitude of the area is 20,000 feet, and daytime temperatures drop to minus 20 degrees Celsius.
Siachen was previously part of the united state of Jammu and Kashmir and is now in the Union Territory of Ladakh.