Sikkim Glaciers
Glaciers are moving mountains of ice. There are many of these in Sikkim among which the most important ones are Zemu Glacier, Rathong Glacier and the Lonak Glacier in North Sikkim.
Zemu Glacier
The Zemu glacier is the largest and the most famous glacier of the eastern Himalayas.
It is 26 km in length and is situated in a large U-shaped valley at the base of the Khangchendzonga massif in northwestern Sikkim.
The Teesta River rises from the snout of this glacier.
Many tributary glaciers feed the trunk glacier. The side valleys in which these glaciers lie open into the main Zemu Valley from different directions.
Icefalls and waterfalls have formed at the junction of the tributary glaciers with the Zemu glacier.
sikkim Water Falls
The verdant green landscape of Sikkim is broken here and there by waterfalls that leap out of the hillside to the valley floors in plumes of white.
Waterfalls are found almost all over Sikkim but there is a profusion of them in North Sikkim specially on the road between Mangan and Lachung as well as in the Dzongu area.
Most of the waterfalls are perennial and are spring water fed but there are many that derive their water from melting snow.
Except for a few most of the waterfalls are unnamed
