Top Dangerous Cave Found In Mustang Nepal (Watch Video)

Mustang, the former Kingdom of Lo in northern Nepal, is home to one of the world’s great archaeological mysteries. In this dusty, wind-savaged place, hidden within the Himalayas and cleaved by the Kali Gandaki River, are approximately 10,000 human-built caves. In the mid-1990s, archaeologists from Nepal and the University of Cologne began exploring the stacked caves and found several dozen bodies, all at least 2,000 years old. Since then, groups have continued to investigate the remote Upper Mustang site, but no-one has discovered who built the caves. Here, a Tibetan Buddhist lama leads his horse through the neighbouring village of Samdzong. (Cory Richards/National Geographic Stock)