The Disturbing History Of India's Bone-Filled Roopkund Lake
Roopkund Lake India frozen Wikimedia Commons/Neha iitb By Richard Milner/Feb. 26, 2024 9:00 am EST At this point in time it's easy to imagine that there's nothing left to explore or discover on our planet. After all, tools like Google Earth let users zoom down from orbit right to their own roof. We've got tours and visitors' guides to the most obscure, remote, and inaccessible places on the globe. Sites like Airbnb offer deluxe mountainside cabin experiences in locations that would have taken people days to hike to in previous centuries. And yet, sometimes it's nice to get a reminder that mysteries still exist, right here on Earth and not out in space. Even our own oceans, which cover 70% of the planet's surface, have only been 5% mapped. This is where sites like Roopkund Lake come into play. Located in the Himalayan mountains in the Indian state of Uttarakhand at a height of 15,700 feet, Roopkund Lake is home to a mystery as macabre as it is bizarre. The 80...