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Trip around the world in 63 days, 2003
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We spend the night in the valley at the foot of the mountain and could study the enormous forces which created the valleys. Earlier we have seen lakes which were created by gigantic volcanic eruptions and explosions, here an other mechanism creates lakes. The enormous glaciers not only cut out the valleys but further churned out the enormous lakes. When the glaciers disappeared the lakes remained, filled with water. The erosion of the mountains continued and very slowly the beginning of the lakes were filled up by debris, stones, silt sand and other erosion products. Here is nicely to see that the lake is slowly filled up so a low flat plain is existing now in the area where once a glacier lake was. Over million years the mountains will erode and the lake further filled up.