Based on the thermal profile of the glacier, the glaciers of Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Himachal PradeshHimachal pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir are classified to warm type of glaciers whereas glaciers of Ladakh and adjoining region are classified to cold type of glaciers. The glaciers in Karakoram Himalaya, classified as surge glaciers, are characterized by rapid advance of snout due to the transfer of mass to ablation zone in short period of time. The cycles of Pleistocene glacial and interglacial periods have been responsible in facilitating the glacial erosion during the glacier advance by the processes of internal deformation, basal sliding and bed deformation in the body of glacier while transport and deposition of paraglacial and/or nonglacial sediments have been predominant during the glacier retreat. The access of rainwater, if any, to the bed of glacier also promotes the basal sliding, glacial erosion and evacuation of sediments. The transportation of sediments at the bottom and margins of glacier is subject to relationship between glacier cover, sliding velocity, glacier thermal regime, glacier hydrology, subglacial and proglacial sediment cascade and erosion rates. The ‘hydraulic jacking’ of overlying ice reduces the contact between sole of glacier and the rock bed causing complexities in the subglacial dynamics of glacier. The study of erosional and depositional landforms of Kolahoi, Zanskar, Suru, Satopanth, Chorabari, Pimu, Menthosa, Dhauliganga, Bhagirath Kharak glacier valleys have been useful in building the Pleistocene landscape.