Is avalanche the answer to a 62-year-old Russian mystery over 9 deaths?
26 Feb, 2021 04:00 AM
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An image of the hiking trip from January 28, 1959. Cameras and film were recovered after the hikers were found. Photo / dyatlovpass.com via The New York Times
New York Times
By: Ivan Nechepurenko and Alan Yuhas
Was it UFOs? Yeti? The KGB? The riddle of who or what killed nine young hikers has inspired conspiracy theories for decades. Two scientists now say a natural disaster may be to blame. What drove nine experienced hikers, some barefoot and almost naked, out of their tent and into the subzero cold and the tomblike darkness of the Russian wilderness in 1959?