They thought the perpetrators after their belongings. "The hikers were marched down to die from exposure. Then, her theory goes, armed people confronted them and there was a brief scuffle. Hadjiyska says she thinks that something alarmed the group and they clambered out of the tent. Here are some of them:Īfter years of picking through the information, she has her suspicions about what transpired on that frozen mountain. In the vacuum of an actual explanation, many wild theories of the Dyatlov Pass Incident took root. Given the circumstances, you can see how surviving family members might be unsatisfied with the government's vague conclusion. The causes of death were listed as "compelling natural force." Some documents were then classified, and the area was closed to public access for years following the incident. But in the end, investigators concluded that no one else was on the mountain when the hikers died.īy the end of May, the investigation was officially ended. Officials first suspected that the Mansi may have been offended by the trespassers on their sacred land, causing them to lash out in violence against the hikers. One photo shows tree markings made by local Mansi people another shows an unidentified figure that some people believe could be an intruder (or more outlandishly, a yeti).or maybe there was some other danger afoot. Pictures recovered from cameras at the scene seemed to portray a group that started in high spirits but ended with dour, anxious faces, perhaps because they thought they were lost.One woman's eyes and tongue were missing, yet there was no sign of struggle, which seemed to rule out foul play. The three found in the ravine suffered a variety of terrible injuries, including skull and chest fractures.The group failed to arrive at a rendezvous point at a predetermined time, so search and rescue teams, including army units, set out to find them. But much of what transpired during the next two days on Kholat Syakhl is hard to understand. Researchers know this much thanks to journals and film recovered from the camp. In any case, they pitched their large shared tent, where they would soon be subjected to temperatures that nosedived to around minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 40 degrees Celsius). Maybe they were too cold and weary to fall back. Perhaps they simply didn't want to lose the ground they'd gained. Rather than retreating to a more protected area they opted, for whatever reason, to camp on the mountain's exposed slopes. The altered route meant that the team had to choose a new campsite. But a fierce snowstorm pushed them off their intended route and onto the slopes of a mountain named Kholat Syakhl, which, in the language of the indigenous people who live here, means "Dead Mountain." The following morning, they began their ascent, hoping to push over the pass and then make camp. ![]() There, they stashed extra gear and food that they'd need for their return trip. 31, the group reached a critical waypoint, a valley that marked the approach to what would eventually come to be called Dyatlov Pass.
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