Arre, people think it is just melting ice making the ground muddy, but the real danger is that the water gets trapped and makes the mountain heavy enough to slide down all at once, dragging the road with it. That frozen earth was the glue holding the rocks together, and when it turns to soup, the asphalt doesn't just crack—it shears off into the valley. I saw a whole stretch of the Manali-Leh highway near Sarchu vanish overnight because the mountain beneath it decided to slide away while we were sleeping in our tents. You can’t fix a road when the mountain itself is leaving the building, yaar.
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