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Here's the wiki for those unfamiliar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Avalanche. There's no debate among serious, intelligent people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Especially with the bodies in the creek. Snowmelt would push them that direction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I agree, but I love hearing different theories for stuff like this lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Would an avalanche have buried/displaced their tent and bodies?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’m guessing the discoveries were far later, allowing time for it to melt off

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's been a while since I read about it but IIRC, rescuers arrived just days later and were able to follow their tracks down the mountain to where some of the bodies were eventually found. An avalanche powerful enough to kill the whole party surely would have wiped all this away even if some of it had melted away in the preceding couple of days.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Avalanche, hypothermia, death

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Y'all, they famously used shit they learned from making the movie Frozen and pretty much modeled it exactly. This isn't a mystery anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Aliens. It’s always aliens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I thought theory was a fire/smoke leaking /explosion inside the tent caused by the homemade stove leading to them cutting their way out and running, and then getting separated and lost in the confusion, before succumbing to hypothermia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That does seem to fit the findings. Then missing eyes and tongue are just birds or rodents chewing them out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Military guards having sick fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Silent and deadly

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It was a yeti. Could have even been Mugato.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Downvote me if you want, I have photo evidence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I love the yeti theory. It's so absurd