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A Hindu holy man exhales smokes outside the registration counter for the annual Amarnath Yatra pilgrimage in Jammu, India, Thursday, June 21, 2012. Amarnath houses an ice stalagmite worshipped by Hindus as an incarnation of Lord Shiva, the god of destruction and creation and the pilgrimage is scheduled to begin from June 25. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Photo by Channi Anand