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The unsolved mystery of Skeleton Lake
By Neelima Vallangi6th July 2021
Nearly 80 years after the Himalayan lake first captured the world s imagination, the mystery continues to confound – even as revolutionary advances are made in understanding our past.
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The rising sun was yet to shine on the freezing, snow-covered cirque where I was resting after an early morning trudge to a glacial tarn. Cold and miserable, at a dizzying height of 4,800m in the Indian Himalayas, I couldn t summon the energy to care about the pile of human skeletons stacked next to the frozen lake known as Roopkund. In 2009, when I went on the trek, the mystery of Skeleton Lake was considered solved and Roopkund trek was well on its way to changing the course of the nascent trekking scene in India.