The artificial glacier growing in the desert

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In the far north of India, a cold mountain desert is the stunning backdrop to an unprecedented icy structure.

This is a land of extremes, where rainfall is scarce and temperatures range wildly from torrid to far below freezing.
The locals say it's the only place in the world where a man, sitting in the sun with his feet in the shade, can suffer sunstroke and frostbite at the same time.

It's the Ladakh region - meaning "land of high passes" - sandwiched between two of the world's tallest mountain ranges, the Himalayas and the Kunlun.
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