*TW* Dyatlovs Pass-Nine Dead Hikers!?
Tags: Tw, Crime, True Crime, Russia, Murder

January 29th to the second of February 1959- nine dead hikers were found with bizarre wounds. After 61 years this case has finally been “solved” according to Russian officials. Ten students wanted a break from all the studying, so they went on a skiing expedition in the Northern Soviet Union. All of the students were high level hikers and knew what exactly what they were doing. Igor Dyatlov was the man in charge of the expedition, the group consisted of eight men including him and two women. The group took a train to the city of Vizhay, one of the group members wrote down everything that was going on during the whole trip in their diary, another member brought their camera and there were a lot of pictures of the hiking team. One member of the group, Yuri Yudin had to leave due to joint problems in the knee, which saved his life. On February first, all the hikers traveled across the snowy cold area and climed onto the other side of a tall mountian. In a few hours the group got lost when they decided to travel west. The members decided to set camp there for the night, at the bottom of a mountain slope.

The leader of the group, Dyatlov told everyone back home that approximately around February 12th they would be back home. On the 20th none of the members were back. Their families got worried and asked search teams and police to try to look for their kids. Students, volunteers, police and the army were all looking for the missing group.

On February 26th, the hikers were finally found. Firstly, a search party found their camp site, very abandoned and all their clothes and weapons were there; the tent had been cut open with scissors. One thing that the hikers took was their camera. One thing that makes everyone think is- why would someone take a camera instead of clothes in the cold Russian mountains in winter. Five of the students were found completely without clothes, the other four were found farther away wearing the other students clothes.

Two members- Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonishenko were found closest to the tent, both had their hands destroyed, the trees nearby had human flesh on them. Igor Dyatlov was found after the two, he was on his back with his hands on his chest covered in scrapes-he had the least graphic wounds. Another hiker Rustun was found with his skull severely fractured. A female hiker, Zanadia, had many injuries on her face and her hands looked like bloody stumps with severe frostbite. Nikoly was found under thick layers of snow with his skull destroyed and his jawline broken. Alexander and Samion were found with missing eyes and tissue around it. The last hiker, the most damaged one was Lyudmila- all her face soft tissue was gone, her eyes and tongue were missing and her nose was broken, her mouth was positioned as if she was screaming. All of the clothes that were found were all radioactive, all the students were found with grey hair, not only that, but the whole camp area measured high for radiation.

There are so many theories about what happened to the group- was it animals, people, forces, or the area of the campsite. The first theory was that aliens came to the area; before the death of the hikers, people said that there were weird orbs in the sky that night. Surprisingly, the KGB- Russian secret police force threatened the researchers to stop thinking that it was UFOS, which seems suspicious. Another theory was that the group were the KGB trying to fool Americans in some secret deal, and when the Americans found out, they killed the hikers. The third theory is that an avalanche was coming down so they freaked and ran as fast as they could away, got lost and died of hypothermia. The last theory is the infersound theory-meaning that the high elevation wind may have gotten them crazy. It was made by Donnie Eichar who also wrote a book about it. The wind was going around the mountain and created a vortex which would drive the campers crazy and panicked, which kind of explains why there were all away from each other. The case is now “solved” which each hiker said to have died of “hypothermia.” After so many years no one really understood how they died, why were their tounges and soft tissue cut out? Why were they naked? Why was the only important thing a “camera?”