Skeleton Lake: How DNA Cracked Roopkund's Himalayan Mystery
High in the Garhwal Himalaya, above the tree line and well inside the kind of cold that cracks lips and numbs fingers, sits a small glacial pool that locals and trekkers know by an
Roopkund lies in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, perched at roughly 5,020 metres (about 16,470 feet) in the lap of two towering summits, Trishul and Nanda Ghunti.
The remains were brought to wider attention in 1942, when a forest ranger named Hari Kishan Madhwal, patrolling the Nanda Devi sanctuary, came upon the grim scatter of bones.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and so does the human imagination.