The Dyatlov Pass Incident: What Really Happened to the Nine Hikers? (1959)

The Dyatlov Pass Incident feature image showing the abandoned tent, snowy Ural Mountains, and the nine Soviet hikers in 1959

  On the night of February 1, 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers fled their tent in the middle of a freezing Ural Mountains night — without shoes, without coats, in temperatures of minus 30°C. Six died of hypothermia. Three died of injuries so severe that Soviet investigators compared them to a car crash. No explanation … Read more