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Fire Burns Directly Out of Water at This Himalayan Shrine — and Nobody Lit It

At 3,762 metres in Nepal's Mustang district, natural gas has kept a flame alight beside — and by tradition within — a spring for so long that Hindus…

By Laxman Rawal · Aug 28, 2026

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No one tends this fire. No one has to. At 3,762 metres in the high desert of Nepal's Mustang district, natural gas seeps up through cracks in the bedrock beside a mountain spring and keeps a flame burning next to running water — fire and water sitting side by…

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