snout of this glacier.
Many tributary glaciers feed the trunk glacier. The side valleys in which these glaciers lie open into the main Zemu Valley from different directions. Icefalls and waterfalls have formed at the junction of the tributary glaciers with the Zemu glacier.
Rathong Glacier
Rathong Glacier - Khangchendzonga Trekking is slightly strenuous and starts from Yuksam 1,780 m. - Rathong Glacier 4,573 m. – Goechala 4,940 m. – Tashiding 1,470 m. on the southern foot of Mt.Khangchendzonga in Sikkim and designed to visit of Gangtok, Tsomgo, Rumtek, Yuksam, Pelling, and Darjeeling. Open an option to reach 5,084 m.
Preferable period is from 3rd week of April to June & 2nd week of Sept. to November.
