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{{Short description|Glacier in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2017}}
{{Infobox glacier
| name = Drang-Drung Glacier
| image = Drang-Drung-Glacier.jpg
| caption = Drang-Drung Glacier
| type = Mountain glacier
| location = [[Himalaya Range]], [[Zanskar|Zanskar Range]], [[Pensi La]], [[Ladakh]]
| map = India Ladakh#India
| map_caption = Location in India
| label_position = right
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| coordinates = {{Coord|format=dms|display=it}}
| area =
| length = {{cvt|23|km|mi|0}}
| thickness =
| terminus =
| status =
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}}

The '''Drang-Drung Glacier''' (also called '''Durung Drung Glacier''') is a mountain [[glacier]] near the [[Pensi La]] pass on the Kargil-Zanskar Road<ref name="Drang drung"/> in the [[Kargil district]] of [[Ladakh]] in [[India]].<ref name="Pensi La">{{cite book | author=Janet Rizvi | title=Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xoluAAAAMAAJ | access-date=12 July 2012 |year=1996 | publisher=Oxford University Press, 1996 | isbn=978-0-19-564016-8 | page=30}}</ref>

The Drang-Drung Glacier is likely to be the largest glacier in Ladakh after the [[Siachen Glacier]] in the [[Karakoram Range]],<ref name="Drang drung glacier">{{cite book | author=Jasbir Singh | title=The Economy of Jammu & Kashmir | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ROfsAAAAMAAJ| access-date=12 July 2012 |year=2004 | publisher=Radha Krishan Anand & Co.| isbn=978-81-88256-09-9 | page=223}}</ref> with a maximum length of {{cvt|23|km|mi|0}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/zanskar-anyone/|title=Zanskar Range|publisher=himalayanclub.org|access-date=2012-07-12|archive-date=6 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106063600/https://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/zanskar-anyone/|url-status=dead}}</ref> at an average elevation of {{cvt|4,780|m|ft mi|abbr=in}}. The glacier lies in the northeastern [[Himalayan Range]] known as the [[Zanskar Range]], {{cvt|142|km|mi|0}} south of [[Kargil town|Kargil]] and {{cvt|331|km|mi|0}} east of [[Srinagar]], the capital of [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref name="Pensila">{{cite web | title=Zanskar | url= http://www.rang7.com/newguide/index/printpdf/slug/zanskar | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141006083159/http://www.rang7.com/newguide/index/printpdf/slug/zanskar | url-status=dead | archive-date=6 October 2014 | access-date=12 July 2012 | format=pdf | publisher=rang7.com }}</ref>

The Drang-Drung Glacier is a long river of ice and snow, a [[river source|source]] of the [[Stod River]],<ref name="Pensi La"/> a tributary of the [[Zanskar River]], itself a tributary of the [[Indus River]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tourisminjammukashmir.com/zanskar-tour.htm| title= Stod a tributary of Zanskar river|publisher=tourisminjammukashmir|access-date=2012-07-12|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120724044111/http://www.tourisminjammukashmir.com/zanskar-tour.htm|archive-date=24 July 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Doda Peak with an elevation of {{cvt|6,550|m|ft mi|abbr=in}} rises from the glacier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/expeditions-and-notes-17/|title=Expeditions and notes|publisher=himalayanclub|access-date=2012-07-12|archive-date=24 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324034317/https://himalayanclub.org/journal/expeditions-and-notes-17|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:Drang Drung glacier seen from the Pensi La pass.JPG|thumb|left|250px|Drang Drung Glacier seen from [[Pensi La]]]] @ladakh_adventure_0.1

== Access ==
The Drang-Drung Glacier is accessible from [[Srinagar]] or [[Srinagar Airport]] in two days, {{cvt|331|km|mi|0}} by car or bus along [[NH 1D]], which connects Srinagar and [[Leh]] through the towns of [[Ganderbal]], [[Kangan, Jammu and Kashmir|Kangan]], [[Sonamarg]], and [[Dras]]. Kargil town is at the half-way point.{{cn|date=September 2020}} From Kargil the glacier lies on the right side of Kargil-Zanaskar Road<ref name="Drang drung"/> which passes through a gorge of the [[Suru River (Indus)|Suru River]] and below two mountain peaks, [[Nun Kun|Nun]] and [[Nun Kun|Kun]]. After crossing the [[Pensi La]] mountain pass a trek of one day<ref name="Drang drung">{{cite book | author=Prem Singh Jina | title= Ladakh: The Land and the People | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjhcZgDy-WMC&pg=PA35 | access-date=12 July 2012 |year=1996 | publisher=Indus Publishing, 1996 | isbn=978-81-7387-057-6 | page=35}}</ref> from the road leads to the head of Drang-Drung glacier. The road is only open to traffic from May–September due to heavy snowfall at [[Zojila]] and Pensi La passes, and the best time to visit is July to August.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://travel.kashmironline.net/ladakh.asp|title=Ladakh, Zanskar, Nubra, Kargil|website=travel.kashmironline.net|access-date=2012-07-14|archive-date=21 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421030533/http://travel.kashmironline.net/ladakh.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{rs?|date=February 2023}}<ref name="Pensila"></ref>

==References==
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{{Ladakh}}

{{Hydrography of Ladakh}}

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[[Category:Kargil district]]
[[Category:Geography of Ladakh]]
[[Category:Glaciers of Ladakh]]
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