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in January 1959 nine experienced Soviet
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hikers set out to conquer the frozen
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Eural mountains Their leader Igor
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Deatlov assembled a team of university
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students and graduates each well-versed
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in survival techniques each eager to
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earn a prestigious hiking certification
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Their destination Otorin a remote peak
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whose name in the local Many language
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ominously translates to don't go there
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After setting off from Vijay the last
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inhabited settlement the group
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encountered worsening weather Snows
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storms and disorienting conditions
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forced them to deviate west toward a
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barren slope of Kolatiakal meaning dead
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mountain They never made it to Oortan
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When they missed their scheduled
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check-in a search party was dispatched
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What they found would become one of the
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most chilling mysteries of the 20th
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century Their tent was discovered first
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partially collapsed abandoned and most
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disturbingly slashed open from the
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inside Footprints in the snow barefoot
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or in socks led away from the tent
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toward a nearby forest A few hundred
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meters away searchers found Igor Datloff
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himself frozen in the snow his fists
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clenched tight But the true horror was
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discovered months later as the spring
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thaw revealed the final four bodies
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deeper in the forest lying in a ravine
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Nikolai Tibo Brinol had a crushed skull
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Sean Zolatorio's chest had been caved in
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with a force compared by medical
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examiners to a car crash yet with no
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external wounds to match Adding to the
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mystery traces of radiation were found
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on some of the hiker's clothing Soviet
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investigators quickly closed the case
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blaming an undefined compelling natural
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force but never specifying what that
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force was For decades speculation has
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filled the vacuum left by official
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silence Some suggest an avalanche but
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the slope was too shallow and no debris
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was found Others propose secret military
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testing After all strange orange orbs
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were seen in the sky that night by
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nearby villagers Some even claimed the
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group stumbled into a classified weapons
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experiment Still others point to
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infrasound low-frequency winds whipping
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over the mountain that could trigger
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irrational panic causing the hikers to
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flee their tent without rational thought
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A more sinister theory involves the
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indigenous Monzy people Yet no evidence
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ever linked them to the deaths and they
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had no known history of violence against
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outsiders Then there are theories of
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Yeti attacks alien interference or
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government assassinations All fueled by
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missing files censored reports and
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survivors families describing strange
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state behavior after the bodies were
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recovered In 2019 Russian authorities
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reopened the investigation concluding
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that an avalanche delayed by weather
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conditions caused the deaths But
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forensic experts including avalanche
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specialists continue to dispute this
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explanation the tense location the
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injuries without corresponding external
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trauma the torn clothing the radiation
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These facts still do not add up To this
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day no theory fully explains all the
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evidence The Diet Pass incident remains
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an unsolved tragedy a snapshot frozen in
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time where nine young explorers met a
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violent unexplainable end beneath the
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cold silent sky of the Eural Mountains
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Whatever horror they faced that night it
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left them no time to react no time to
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prepare and no way to survive
