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TREK TO PINDARI GLACIER

It is understood that some Lt. Governor of the United Provin-
ces, having a surplus at the end of his financial year, resolved
that it might be profitably spent on making accessible some of
the glorious scenery of the Kumaon Himalayas. He accordingly
planted staging bungalows at convenient distances, right from
Bagesewar to the glacier from which the Pindar river flows, a
total distance of eighty miles from Almora and thus all lovers of
nature in her grandest manifestations are lasting debtors to his
generous thoughtfulness.
From the Pindari glacier one can move up the moraine and
reach Traill's pass, named after G. W. Traill, the first commiss-
ioner of Kumaon who was desirous of finding a direct route to
Johar so as to give a boost to the trade. Since then it is called
Traill's Pass or Maluk Singh Buda Pass who was the first to cross
the Pass and enter into Johar valley-
Pindari
Pindari glacier is one of the most beautiful and well known
glaciers in the Central Himalayas. It originates from Nandakhat
21,690ft. (6611 metre) high peak which lies within the Nanda
Devi sanctuary.