There are a whole lot of strange things happening all over the world and the “Dyatlov Pass Incident” is just one of many. With this incident, a group of nine experienced ski hikers fell victim to a mysterious death that occurred deep in the Ural Mountains of Russia in 1959. They were young students and graduates of the Ural Polytechnic Institute who left for a traveling exhibition in the USA on January 27, 1959. They never returned to their families as their bodies were later discovered scattered near their campsite in the mountains.
The area where the bodies of the victims were found was later named Dyatlov Pass, derived from the name of the expedition leader Igor Dyatlov, who was just 23 years old at the time of his death. Due to the inconsistent appearance and injuries to the victims’ bodies, ranging from crushed internal organs to torn, half- or fully clothed tongues, there has been much speculation as to the true cause of their deaths.
Some of the theories included; Military actions and covert operations, UFOs, radiation and other conspiracy theories. Although it is a tragic event that happened many years ago, scientists and explorers are still trying to unravel the mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass incident. Still, here are some facts you would like to learn.
Facts about the Dyatlov Pass Incident
1. Healthy looking young men and women
Attempting an expedition requires courage and skillas challenging as one in the Urals. In this particular mountain hike, all hikers were exceptionally good hikers who were in excellent health. These young men and women from Ural University took a break from their studies and decided the perfect trip would be mountain hiking. They also documented their journey well from day one and their pictures featured fun people with effortless and rugged climbing shots who seemed to be having a great time in the wild. Hence the question why this trip had to be a sealed fate for her?
2. Strange tear of the tent from the inside
The temperature around the Ural Mountains is measured average was -16.6 degrees Celsius. So it was odd to discover that the hikers were driving through the tent from the inside to get away from whatever came to mind. The main question is why they didn’t open the tent normally. In addition, most of their hiking tools were left in the tent, including; Navigation accessories, cold weather gear, jackets, gloves, pants and other warm clothing. However, the strange thing is that one of the hikers, Semyon Zolotaryov, also escaped from the tent with his camera but without clothes. What could so frighten these hikers that they left the tent without protective gear and risked hypothermia.
3. Different injury patterns on the corpses
Just when search parties thought things couldn’t get any worse, they discovered that each of the victims had varying injuries despite all trying to escape the same threat. The first bodies discovered were those of Yuri Kirvonischenko and Yuri Doroshenko. They were the ones who were near their campsite and they had extremely brutal hands. With the team leader, Igoe Dyatlov, his body was discovered in a very disturbing way, in the sense that his corpse was lying face up, jacket unbuttoned, his face covered in abrasions while his hands were pressed tightly to his chest were.
Rustem Slobodin was soon found with a severe skull fracture, Zinaida had injuries to her face but her hands took most of the attack as frostbite and abrasions devastated both hands and phalanges. It was two months before the bodies of the other hikers were found, with injuries that were as strange as they were inconsistent. The body of Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles was discovered covered in snow. Looking at the body alone, no external injuries could be observed, but he did sustain gruesome internal injuries, including a fractured skull and jaw.
The next bodies found were those of Semyon Zolotaryov and Alexander Kolevatov, whose injuries were quite grisly. Semyon was missing his soft tissues near the eye as well as his eyes. His chest was so compressed it cracked his ribs. There was also a wide wound on his skull. Alexander also lacked soft handkerchiefs near his eyes and had a deep wound on his skull very close to his ear. The most brutal injuries were discovered on the body of the last victim, Lyudmila Dubinina. Her nose was completely crushed, her eyes were missing, her tongue was ripped from her body while her mouth was open as if she were screaming.
4. Strange compelling force
However, it was found that the walkers would have usually died of hypothermia, the injuries they sustained mostly from the contusion and the fractures stopped mid-sack. In the end, published research documentation merely stated that there was a possibility of external violence killing the victims, but gave no plausible indication of the nature of the violence.
5. Intense radiation on the walkers
Another strange discovery of the Dyatlov Pass was made when conducting an autopsy. The bodies of the hikers showed high radiation exposure, which was also observed at the scene of the incident. The loved ones of the deceased hikers also noted that during the burial, the bodies had an orange cast while lying down, while their hair had turned gray.