From making The Baily Bridge,  the highest bridge in the world, located in the Ladakh valley  between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains in 1982 to showing its best of virtues in defending frontiers and fighting terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and helping  people at the times of natural disasters to reaching out and rescuing a six year old boy from just a 16-inch diameter and 57-foot tube well shaft, from a village in Kurukshetra, Haryana, THE INDIAN ARMY has once again proven that it is blessed with "steeled determination" and a "compassionate heart". Indian army also has the best human rights record in the world. 

Long, bloody wars have been fought, and are being fought, for mountain real estate located between 10,000 feet (3050 meters) and 23,000 feet (7015 meters). the overwhelming altitude made extremely bitter by variant weather.   Biting cold, gusty winds, thin air, intense solar and ultraviolet radiation, deep snow, raging thunderstorms and blizzards which could cut off contact for a week or longer, heavy fog and rapidly changing weather, avalanches and rockslides • high altitude regions are not for the faint-hearted.

Here's where even trees don't grow, let alone animals survive; physical conditions are far more dangerous than enemy fire - where superficial bullet wounds can turn fatal. Over each step you take, the threat of falling, breaking your bones, succumbing to internal injuries looms large. Some of the frequent fatal consequences of work at high altitudes include acute mountain sickness, high altitude pulmonary oedema, and cerebral oedema, frostbites and hypothermia. Sudden weight loss, sunburns caused due to increased ultraviolet exposure, snow blindness are some of the other problems. Despite the hardships, the Jawans are motivated.