The Shafat Glacier â Parkachik Glacier is a long glacier in the Himalayan Range in Ladakh, India.
It is situated south from Kargil and east from Srinagar on the right side of Kargil â Zanskar Road near the border of the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in India.
The Shafat Glacier â Parkachik Glacier gives rise to the two mountain peaks of Nun and Kun which have an elevation of more than 6800 meters, and it provides a base to climb these mountain peaks. It lies at an average elevation of 4400 meters. The melt waters add to the flow of the Suru River which is a tributary of the Indus River.
The Shafat Glacier/Parkachik Glacier is a broken, ice falling glacier melting at an alarming rate due to the Global warming,