Roopkund lake in uttrakhand is nestled in a snowy village in the Himalayas situated at height of 16500 feet above sea level. The  lake is infamously called the skeleton Lake of the Himalayas.Roopkund lake can easily freakout visitors because hundreds of human skeleton can be found at the edge of the lake. For this very reason the lake has been subject  of speculation for anthropologists and scientists.

This lake concealing as much as eight hundred skeletons was first discovered in 1942 by a forest ranger working for the British.What the truth was nobody knew but there were plenty of theories floating around like mass suicides, ancient battle,mass graves and some forgotten epidemic.For more than fifty years nobody was able to provide convincing evidence but in 2000s National geographic team made some convincing claims .Nanda Devi perhaps the longest and the most dangerous pilgrimage in India happens to just pass right by roopkund,so there was a pretty good reason for lots of people to be wandering around in that exact spot high up in the mountains. The team discovered thing like bangals and parasols similar to what is offered to nanda Devi and came to a  conclusion that they might have caught in a giant hailstorm in which cricket's ball sized solid ice batted them to death.But in 2019 a team of scientists from the Hyderabad-based centre for cellular and molecular biology made some breakthrough claims that ruled out all the earlier theories.Their study revealed that the skeletons belonged to two genetically distinct groups, one of the south Asian origin which makes sense because roopkund is to to the south of Asia and the second group dating to the 19th century were from east meditterian possibly greek.The researchers claimed these perished in at least two different episodes long back separated by thousand years. The oldest bones in the lake were more than 1000 years old than the new ones so for the hailstorm hypothesis to hold true all the bones should have been exactly of the same age.

So obviously there is a way more to this theories.The lake is still a topic of discussion because of it's unresolved mysteries.A lot of people take a trip to this lake to witness its mystery.

Tell me in the comments are you too interested in visiting this place??

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