Mount Kailash is a place shrouded in mystery and legend. It is believed to represent the axis of the world or the stairway to heaven. According to ancient beliefs, it is the place where we can find the mysterious city of the gods.

It is considered to be the holiest place on Earth by many eastern countries. Although Kailash Mountain is not one of the highest Himalayan ranges, scientists are amazed by its mysterious shape and radio-active energies by pyramids around it.

The literal meaning of Mount Kailash is “Precious Jewel of the Eternal Show”. Lying in the Tibetan range, this mountain is at the axis of the Earth and is devoted to Adi Yogi Shiva and his eternal spirit mate Shakti. It is located near the rivers Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra, and Karnali, and is considered to be the most sacred mountain.

Here we have collected the 7 of most unbielevable secrets, mysteries, or facts of Mount Kailash, and maybe give you some new insight into it.


1. Kailash Mountain Is Unclimbable

Mount Kailash’s height is 6,656 meters above sea level. It is not the tallest mountain in Tibetan areas. However, no one has climbed to the Mount Kailash summit. The ancient legend claimed that only Milarepa, a Buddhist monk had peaked Mount Kailash.

It’s not that the climb was not at all attempted; in spite of numerous attempts, no climber has succeeded in conquering the peak of Mount Kailash. Climbers’ explained that this holy mountain strangely changes the target and also tends to block the tracks which mislead the climbers.

2. Kailash Peak Is a man-made Pyramid

Scientists have discovered that the top of Mt. Kailash is actually a man-made vacuum pyramid. It is surrounded by more than 100 other small pyramids. According to preliminary estimates, the direct height of the pyramid complex is between 100 and 1,800 meters, while the Egyptian pyramid is only 146 meters. If true, it would be larger than any known pyramid today.


According to Russian scientists Mount Kailash is too perfect and symmetrical; it’s extremely perpendicular sides give it the appearance of a pyramid. They suggested that perhaps the mountain is not a mountain at all; it is actually a giant man-made pyramid from ancient times.

3. Central Axis Of The World?

A large number of studies conducted by the scientists of Russia and America believe that the holy peak is the centre of the world and is known as the axis mundi. It is also said to be connected to several other monuments across the globe, such as the Stonehenge, which is exactly 6666 km away from here, the North Pole is also 6666 km from here and the distance from Mt Kailash to the South Pole is 13,332 kilometers, which is exactly twice the distance to the North Pole or Stonehenge.

Mount Kailash, is considered as the cosmic axis or the world tree even in the Vedas and finds the mention of the same in the Ramayana as well.


4. Kailash Range Area Will Accelerated Aging

Some scientists believe that the Kailash range is a vortex of energy that lifts the body and mind. It is said that people who spend 12 hours in the vicinity of Kailash experience accelerated hair and fingernails growth, which is equivalent to two weeks of normal time.

5. Formation of Swastika and Om Parvat

Near Mount Kailash there is OM parvat, snow falls on the peak and takes the shape of OM. When the sun sets, the holy mountain cast a shadow, shadow forms the shape of religious symbol of Swastika, which is considered as an auspicious sign amongst the Hindus.

Om Parvat is one of the mysterious, yet fascinating, the thing in the mountain. Snow falls in the shape of om or aum. If you don’t know, Om or Aum is the vibration of the Universe. It is close to Kailash Parvat, in the Darchula District of Sudurpashchim Pradesh, Nepal.




6. The Moving Mountain

The reason why people can’t reach the top of the mountain is that it keeps changing position. This seems to be really the true holy mountain of the world.

7. The Theory of Twin Lake

There are two lakes surrounding the mountain – Mansarovar, the God lake and the Rakshas Tal, the Devil lake. People say that Mount Kailash stands as the balance between the two and symbolizes that we have both the sides between us, and there isn’t any evil external to us; we are the evil.




Others believes the Mansarovar Lake & Lake Rakshastal can Represent Yin-Yang.

Mansarovar Lake was originally created in the Hindu god’s thoughts and then visualized on the earth. This holy lake is a freshwater lake, whereas, the Rakshas Tal Lake, which is separated by only one way, is a saltwater lake known as a ghost lake. One shapes like the sun, and the other shapes like the moon. The two lakes represent light and darkness respectively.