Overview
Gomukh tapovan is one of the most rewarding treks you will ever do.
The gomukh tapovan trek is a thrillfest with gigantic views of the cow-shaped gomukh glacier which is also one of the main water sources of the holy Ganga’s.the trek offers breathtaking views of the Gangotri peaks shivling, thalay sagar and meru.
The ganga, the noliest of the rivers, revered by the hindus over millinia, springs from an expanse of ice measuring 8km by 24kms. The Gangotri glacier this is the source of the Bhagirathi. Which joins with alaknanda to form ganga at devprayag, from devprayag the river flows 2480km to tha bay og Bengal. At the very top of the Gangotri glacier like a crust of crunchy chocolate on a vanilla bar, is a 30 to 50 ft layer of mud and rock the debris dragged down by the mountains by the in exorable flow of glacier ice.