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The strange behaviour of the Pare Chu
The PC rises from the glaciers to the north of the neighbouring passes of the Takling la (17,299' or 5580 m) in Himachal Pradesh's Spiti. It then enters Tibet about 20 kms beyond this photograph. Then after a course of about 50 kms there it is truned back into Spiti by the 6000 m high Drongmar ridge in Tibet. This thumb shaped projection is the only part of Tibet that juts across the Zanskar. The PC meets the Spiti River below Sumdo in Himachal Pradesh after flowing under a rock bridge at Shugar that it must have helped form aeons ago.
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