New research offers a plausible explanation for the Dyatlov Pass Incident, the mysterious death of nine hikers in the Ural Mountains in what was then the Soviet Union. What I learned intrigued me. On January 27, , a member group consisting mostly of students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute, led by year-old Igor Dyatlov—all seasoned cross-country and downhill skiers—set off on a day expedition to the Gora Otorten mountain, in the northern part of the Soviet Sverdlovsk Oblast. On January 28, one member of the expedition, Yuri Yudin, decided to turn back. He never saw his classmates again.
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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 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.
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