FROZEN Helps Solve a Macabre, 60-Year-Old Hiking Mystery Twitter 0 comments In 1959, nine hikers died in the Ural Mountains in Russia, leaving a mystery behind as to what killed them. Now, 62 years later, scientists say they know what brought those young hikers’ lives to an end: a slab avalanche. And they say they’re certain of this, in part, thanks to simulations generated by the code used to animate Disney’s blockbuster movie Movie Web reported on the newly announced scientific explanation for the event, known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Johan Gaume, the head of the Snow Avalanche Simulation Laboratory at the Swiss technical institute, EPFL, led the team that’s come up with the novel explanation; one they’ve recently outlined in a study published in the journal,