It's been 60 years since the Dyatlov Pass incident & now Russia is reopening an investigation into it
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decline (aka Decline)
Feb 6 '19, 13:02
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-- There's a really good book about this called 'Dead Mountain' by Donnie Eichar.
-- There's a really bad movie fictionalizing this called Devil's Pass . It takes a seriously crazy sci-fi left turn halfway through.
"In the deep cold of a northern Soviet Union February in 1959, nine hikers made camp for the night under the peak in the Ural Mountains known as Kholat Syakhl, the Dead Mountain.
The group were residing in a pass they recently discovered named after their leader, Igor Dyatlov. But they weren’t supposed to be there. The eight men and two women ended up in this particular pass due to losing their direction in bad conditions—they were about a week into their 16-day expedition, and about 10 kilometres outside of their turnaround point.
They would never make it through the night. At the end of that cold night on Kholat Syakhl, all nine hikers would be dead—what caused their deaths remains one of the most popular mysteries of the modern era."
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