The Economic Times

In 1942, a British forest ranger stumbled upon the skeleton lake in the Himalayas. Here's all you need to know about the mysterious Roopkund

Uttarakhand's Roopkund Lake, a remote Himalayan glacial site, has baffled experts for decades with the discovery of hundreds of human skeletons emerging during the summer thaw. Initial theories of a single catastrophic event have been overturned by modern DNA and radiocarbon dating, revealing remains from diverse South Asian and Eastern Mediterranean ancestries, dying across centuries.