World's highest battlefield opened to tourists

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NEW DELHI - India has opened up a strategic glacier in the Himalayas to tourists, the Defence Ministry said.
At 5,000 to 7,000 metres above sea level, the Siachen glacier is the highest battlefield in the world. It has been contested by India and Pakistan since 1984, when the Indian Army occupied it.

The ministry said the glacier was being opened up because a recent thaw in Indian-Pakistani relations had made it possible, and because the area represented "an ideal venue for tourism."

The glacier is in the disputed states of Jammu and Kashmir.