Siachen, A War for Ice | movie | 2005 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The history and life of the soldiers involved the world’s highest, less known and most absurd war. This conflict began | dG1fNEpVMnA3TlAweWM

Transcript

00:00Hi, I'm a fuel container, and my name is Jerry, Jerry Kahn, pressed and folded like a slice

00:10of ham. I was born in Pakistan far back in 1947, squashed between two mighty metal blocks.

00:17I'm Krishna. I'm an Indian Jerry Kahn, and I was born 20 years ago. I was told that on

00:36the top of the world, in the Karakoram region, among the 8,000 tall summits, there is a cemetery

00:42where thousands of my brothers and sisters have died after emptying their bellies of kerosene.

00:49Two enemy fuel containers make a pilgrimage to the front of an unknown war that has been

01:12draining the financial resources of both India and Pakistan.

01:19It is, in fact, mentioned in the world-wide maps that Siachen Glacier is part of Pakistan.

01:26It took me just a second that, oh, this is somewhere wrong. I said, to hell, it's not

01:32in Pakistan's heights.

01:35To the north of the disputed Kashmir lies a glacier called Siachen, which literally

01:39means the Place of Roses. Here, the highest and certainly one of the most absurd and least

01:44known of all wars is being waged, 20 years of conflict for a border drawn up at a desk

01:50and never accepted. Trenches are garrisoned all year round at up to a 7,000-meter altitude.

01:55This is the highest post, all-seasonal post. And you are here in June, and within three,

02:06four hours, you can see two, three feet of snow.

02:11It's a beautiful snow river of 70 kilometer long. And when you stand on that last height,

02:21you can see China, you can see Russia, you can see Pakistan, you can even see Afghanistan.

02:27So that's the romantic side of it.

02:35The largest drinking water reserve in the Himalayas has been polluted by kerosene and

02:40tons of chemical and organic waste, a crime against humanity. Among the victims, 300 million

02:47people who drink the contaminated water from the source of the Indus River.

02:54We all know that perhaps this war could have been avoided. But territorial integrity is

03:02very, very important for any country.

03:08A line between the mountains, a border that kills in order to separate.

03:18It's just a piece of glacier where people, both countries fighting for way that glacier.

03:26It's good for nothing, you know.

03:32War is not good. A country like India, to spend such a big, huge amount on like million

03:42dollars in a day is a big cost.

03:47The history, tragedies and daily life in an unknown and forgotten war, while India and

03:54Pakistan are negotiating peace, thousands of soldiers all year round guard a border

03:58which stretches above the clouds.

04:01What keeps them alive? Billions of liters of kerosene brought by Jerry's and Krishna's

04:07siblings. Here, oil is the sap of war. It provides warmth, light and water to the soldiers

04:13stuck in the ice.

04:24India! India! India!