<P> The Chief of Staff of the US Army, General George Casey on October 17, 2008 visited the Siachen Glacier along with Indian Army Chief, General Deepak Kapoor . The US General visited for the purpose of "developing concepts and medical aspects of fighting in severe cold conditions and high altitude". </P> <P> Since September 2007, India has welcomed mountaineering and trekking expeditions to the forbidding glacial heights . The expeditions have been meant to show the international audience that Indian troops hold "almost all dominating heights" on the important Saltoro Ridge west of Siachen Glacier, and to show that Pakistani troops are not within 15 miles (24 km) of the 43.5 - mile (70 km) Siachen Glacier . </P> <P> The Siachen glacier and its conflict was depicted in a 48 - page comic book, Siachen: The cold war, released in August 2012 . Later its sequel, Battlefield Siachen, was released in January 2013 . </P> <P> On February 11, 2010, an avalanche struck an Indian army post in the Southern Glacier, killing one soldier . A base camp was also struck, that killed two Ladakh scouts . The same day, a single avalanche hit a Pakistani military camp in Bevan sector, killing 8 soldiers . </P>

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