Sources from mumbai stated that in a video that went viral recently, three jawans took turns trying to defrost vegetables, eggs and juice boxes all of which were as hard as ice. Meanwhile they smash them with hammers multiple times while talking of the challenges of surviving in a hostile terrain. Furthermore at the beginning of the video, a soldier rips open a box to reveal juice frozen like a brick inside and then, another soldier hits the frozen juice with a hammer but it doesn't break.
Furthermore after that, the soldiers try to break eggs, frozen as hard as stone, with a hammer. One soldier forcefully throws the eggs on a stone slab and yet nothing happens. "These are the kinds of eggs you get at a glacier," a solider jokes and his colleagues laugh. Similarly, they try to break onions, tomatoes, ginger and potatoes. One soldier says "The temperature plunges as low as minus 70 degrees. Life here is hell". Behind him is a view of their camp-a white expanse. Survival, for them, is no less than a war. From facing extremely chilly winds to making food-everything is a challenge for these army men posted along the Siachen glacier.
Reportedly the Siachen base camp is at an average altitude of more than 18,000 feet. It is also one of the coldest battlefields in the world. Soldiers have to battle frostbite and icy winds. Avalanches and landslides are common at the glacier and the temperatures drop to minus 60 degrees.
