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| Skeletal lake. Indiatraveltime.com |
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| Roopkund,The Himalayan skeletal lake,India wikipedia.org |
At
a height of 16,500 feet above the sea level, in the middle of no-where in the
most uninhabitable,
harsh
part of the mighty
Himalayas nestled in the picturesque glaciated valley lies the secluded Roopkund Lake, covered in snow and surrounded by
rock-strewn glaciers. It is a kind of eerie place. Not for fun and
relaxation; it is not
a
favorite spot for holidaying either. More
popularly known as ''Skeleton Lake'' or ''Mystery Lake,'' the spine-chilling
attraction of this lake is the 600 odd human skeletons of various parts that were
discovered here. These skull
and skeletal
remains of Homosapiens
dating back to the 9th CE are clearly visible at the shallow Himalayan lake.
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| Skeletal Lake, the Himalayas, Indiabbc.com/ |
Upon
seeing the visible bottom of the lake with heaps of human skeletons, you may be
wondering whether you have come to the makeshift graveyard of
Cambodia's
Khmer
Rouge regime
led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea and others (1976-79)
or
remnants of Nazi atrocities (1933
to 1945) in
concentration camps like Auschwitz
or
Sobibor
or Treblinka
master-minded by devils like Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, et al.
These
skeletons will become visible only when the snow melts and exposes
the lake's sedimentary bed at the bottom. The locals believe that this entourage - once tribes
while moving from one place another, for unknown reason,
had earned the fury of the local deity, ''Latu'',
who sent a terrible hailstorm their way.
Caught midway in a no man land, they were helpless and
eventually died
most probably due to extreme cold conditions.
Later the dead bodies were transported to the near-by lake by snow
melt water and ultimately got buried in the bottom of the lake over
which large volume of sediments and silt were deposited by the water.
Definitely this will scar you silly
if you trip on them at night
when it is pitch dark when camping here.
The location of the Skeletal lake is the highest point in Uttarakhand state and this lake was first spotted by patrolling British Forest Ranger in 1942. As to their origin, it is a subject of debate. there are no skeletons of children, but included were women. Scientists genetically analyzed and carbon-dated the remains of 38 bodies, including 15 women, found at the lake - some of them date back to around 1,200 years. As for the above assumptions, scientists say they are are not true.
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