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Jan 29, 2021 · Gaume and co-author Alexander M. Puzrin, a geotechnical engineer at ETH Zürich, used historical records to recreate the mountain’s environment on the night of the Dyatlov incident and attempt ...
- Meilan Solly
Mar 10, 2024 · Published March 10, 2024. For over half a century, investigators and amateur sleuths have puzzled over the bizarre deaths of nine Soviet hikers in 1959. But the solution may be tragically simple. In January 1959, nine young skiers went on an adventurous hiking trip in Russia’s Ural Mountains. The hikers, many of whom were students at the ...
- What Exactly Happened?
- The Dyatlov Pass Incident in Folklore
- Avalanche Evidence
The Soviet authorities investigated to determine the causes of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, but closed it after three months, concluding that a “compelling natural force” had caused the death of the hikers. In the absence of survivors, the sequence of events on the night of February 1 and 2 is unclear to this day, and has led to countless more or les...
“The Dyatlov Pass mystery has become part of Russia’s national folklore. When I told my wife that I was going to work on it, she looked at me with deep respect!” says Puzrin. “I was quite keen to do it, especially because I had started working on slab avalanches two years earlier. My primary research is in the field of landslides; I study what happ...
“We use data on snow friction and local topography to prove that a small slab avalanche could occur on a gentle slope, leaving few traces behind. With the help of computer simulations, we show that the impact of a snow slab can lead to injuries similar to those observed. And then, of course, there’s the time lag between the team cutting into the sl...
2 due to physical chest trauma. 1 due to a fractured skull. The Dyatlov Pass incident (‹See Tfd› Russian: гибель тургруппы Дятлова, romanized: gibel turgruppy Dyatlova, lit. 'Death of the Dyatlov Hiking Group') is an event in which nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959 ...
Aug 22, 2023 · Published August 22, 2023. Updated September 1, 2024. With theories ranging from an avalanche to katabatic wind, researchers may have finally solved the Dyatlov Pass Incident that left nine Soviet hikers dead in February 1959. In January 1959, a 23-year-old hiker named Igor Alekseyevich Dyatlov led a journey to reach the peak of Otorten, a ...
- John Kuroski
Feb 6, 2023 · New Evidence Teases the Truth. Researchers now say the Russian military was behind one of history’s great unsolved tragedies. The Dyatlov Pass Incident, a 1959 hiking tragedy in the remote ...
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Jan 31, 2024 · The Dyatlov Pass—the section of the Ural Mountains that the hikers were trekking to—is named after the leader of the fateful expedition: Igor Dyatlov. Dyatlov was a 23-year-old student ...
