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.
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In Himalayas India, a remote Roopkund lake lodged in a snowy valley is found littered with hundreds of human skeletons. The lake is sited 5,029 metres (16,500feet) above sea level underneath a hilly slope on the Trisul mountains, one of the highest mountains in India, Uttarakhand state.
The Frozen Lake
The remains are littered around and under the ice at the skeletons lake, which was founded in 1942 by a British ranger patrolling in the forest.
The lake remains frozen for the most part of the year, expanding and shrinking depending on the season and weather. The skeleton can be seen only when the snow thaws, at times flesh, are attached and they are well preserved.