“Zen stones” that rest on slender ice pedestals have returned to Lake Baikal in Siberia, four years after they took the internet by storm. Images of the precariously balanced pebbles first circulated on social media when Olga Zima won a photography contest with them. How the stones come to be perched above the surface of the lake is unclear. Some social media users in Russia have speculated that the balancing rocks were created with photoshop. But Yelena Vtorushina, a photographer from Ulan-Ude, a city near the lake, has captured similar images and insists that they are real.

Source: The Times November 29, 2020 23:59 UTC