The Dyatlov Pass Incident: Nine Hikers, One Slashed Tent (1959)
In February 1959, nine experienced ski hikers cut their way out of their tent on a Ural mountainside and died in the cold. Russia’s 2020 review blamed an avalanche, and a 2021 peer-reviewed model showed how a small slab could have done it. The record, the photographs, the science and what’s still open.