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Contact: Vince Stricherz
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Caption: A shortened moraine dam on the Tsangpo River stands amid the Himalaya mountains at Namche Barwa in Tibet, at the head of the Tsangpo gorge.
Credit: Bernard Hallet/University of Washington
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