How 'Frozen' May Have Solved Russia's Dyatlov Pass Mystery
The journey to Mount Ortorten in Russia's Ural Mountains was supposed to take the hiking group a few weeks. They had no reason to expect otherwise: Most of the party's college-aged members, led by 23-year-old Igor Dyatlov, were experienced skiers and hikers. After completing the journey through the mountainous wilderness, they would have qualified for the highest hiking certification granted in the Soviet Union. But the hikers never reached their destination. In February 1959, they went missing. Searchers found the first bodies—the remains of five of the hikers—a few weeks later. They wer...
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