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The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India

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Re: The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India

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My guess is that those are the only wounds that are visible on the bone. On most of the rest of the body the bones are protected by soft tissue.

Maybe but I don’t think there’s that much soft tissue protecting the hands. Maybe they were stoned, then digged up for some reason? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning That would explain why there wasn’t any survivor able to come back later to bury her comrades (if you curl you up I’m not sure how a hailstorm could be lethal to everyone in a big group)

I think that it is probably hard to find enough hand bones to piece together to determine if they have been hit by something big and blunt after this many years.

Re: The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India

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Even though this mystery is as good as solved, this mystery death remains still a mystery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

There exists a Skeptoid episode about this: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4108 an excerpt: "Here is my proposed explanation of what happened. It's wrong, of course, because it's done from my armchair 50 years after the fact and with no firsthand knowledge of the region, but it's completely reasonable and does adequately satisfy the facts as we know them. Nine skiers set up camp in an area with potential avalanche dang…

Not bad, I can buy that. However, bodies exposed outdoors, in the cold, do not age that much, especially if they are covered with clothes and so on. Not sure where the tan would originate from.
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