Most of us would do everything we can so as not to set foot in a place near a place that local natives call “Dead Mountain”. This did not prevent the Dyatlov hiking group, which participated in a sixteen -day ski expedition across the north of the Urals in late January 1959. Experienced and fearless, these ten young Soviet ski hikers had what it took to make the trip, at least if nothing was happening terribly. A sciatica fight forced a member of the group to return early, which turned out to be lucky for him. About a month later, the irradiated bodies of his nine comrades were discovered dispersed in different Dead Mountain areas at a certain distance from their campsite, with various traumatic injuries and in various undressing states.
Something was indeed terribly badly turned, but no one could understand what. For decades, the fate of the Dyatlov hiking group has inspired countless explanations going widely in plausibility. Some have theorized a bizarre meteorological phenomenon; others a kind of toxic airborne event; Still others, the actions of American spies or even a Yeti.
“In a place where the information has been as closely controlled as in the former Soviet Union, the distrust of the official stories is natural, and nothing in the file can explain why people would leave an undress, almost suicidal”, ” writes it New York‘S Douglas Preston. It was not until the end of the twenty sowing, when the Memorial Foundation of the Dyatlov group was reopened, the investigators evaluated the contradictory evidence while carrying out new measurements and by performing new experiences.
Probable causes have been reduced to those explained by experts in The Vox video above: A severe blizzard and an ice slab that had to move and crush the tent. Densely packed by the wind, this massive and heavy slab would have “prevented from recovering their boots or warm clothes and forced them to make their way on the side of the tent”, passing towards the natural shelter closest to the avalanche they thought they were coming. But no avalanche came, and they could not find their way to their camp in the dark. “If they had been less experienced, they could have stayed close to the tent, having unearthed and surviving it,” wrote Preston. “The expertise of skiers condemned them.” Not everyone accepts this theory, but then, the idea that knowledge can kill could be more frightening than even the most abominable snowman.
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Based in Seoul, Colin MArshall Written and broadcastTS on cities, language and culture. His projects include the substack newsletter Books on cities And the book The stateless city: a walk through Los Angeles from the 21st century. Follow it on the social network formerly known as Twitter in @ColinmArshall.
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