The Diátlov Pass incident is the name given to the case of a group of hikers who died in mysterious circumstances.
On January 23, 1959, a group of students agreed to go on a ski trip through the Ural Mountains. They met in Yekaterinburg, 11 in total but 1 of them could not join the plans. So there were 10 left.
Most were students of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. They set out with the goal of reaching Gora Otorten. Getting there, at that time of year, was an exceedingly difficult mission.
After a trip by train and then by truck, they arrived on January 27 to the last inhabited settlement. From there they went to Mount Otorten. One of the members withdrew due to severe back pain. So the group was reduced to 9.
On January 31 they reached the edge of the mountain and were preparing to climb. The weather was so bad that they apparently deviated from the route and when they realized they decided to make a camp, on January 1, in the mountainside.
The Mystery of the Diatlov Pass Incident
The arrival date at the finish line was February 12. They had agreed to send a telegram to the university sports club on that date. The message was never sent and the parents began to worry.
On February 20, the search began. On the 26th they found the camp, all torn and broken. The cuts had been made from within. Footprints on the ground pointed to a nearby forest and disappeared about 500 meters away. In the forest they found remains of a campfire and 2 corpses, without shoes, in their underwear and looking at the sky. Their arms had bruises and the tree showed blood and skin. It follows that they tried to climb the tree for some reason.
Beyond there were 3 more bodies. They were 200 meters apart. One of them had his arms across his chest and supposedly had a branch in one hand. It appears that all three were trying to return to the camp when they were frozen to death.
Two months had to wait to find the other 4 hikers. They were found 75 meters from the tree where their companions were but buried by 4 meters of snow. Their appearance was strange: 2 of them were hugging and were wearing appropriate clothes and even shoes. The other 2 did not have eyes and one did not have a tongue.
Before finding the last 4, it was deduced that their injuries were not the cause of their death, they no longer seemed so serious, and that they had died of hypothermia. When they found the last bodies, things got more complicated
These did show fatal injuries and it was inexplicable why one of the hikers did not have a tongue and why they had radiation on her clothes. Two showed severe blows to the head that could not be caused accidentally. It was concluded that this group died from their injuries and not from frostbite.