ArInA-pAn Posted February 28, 2021 Posted February 28, 2021 High in the Indian part of the Himalayas, a distant lake nestled in a snowy valley is covered in human skeletons. Lake Roopkund is 5,029 meters above sea level, at the bottom of a steep slope in Trisul, one of the highest mountains in India, in the state of Uttarakhand. Human remains are scattered on and under the ice in the "Lake of Skeletons", discovered by a British patrol in 1942. Anthropologists and other scientists have been studying them for more than half a century. The lake has attracted curious researchers and visitors for years. Depending on the season, the lake, which stays frozen for most of the year, expands or shrinks. Only when the snow melts are skeletons visible, some with meat still well preserved. To date, the skeletal remains of between 600 and 800 individuals have been found here. The Indian government promotes it in tourist brochures as the "lake of mystery".
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