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What is the explanation for the 1959 Dyatlov Pass deaths supported by the 2021 physics study and the reopened Russian investigation?
Gaume and Puzrin's model showed a slab release on the cut slope could cause exactly the chest and skull injuries. Fleeing the tent into -25°C wind, all nine died of trauma and hypothermia.
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The Dyatlov Pass Incident of February 1959, in Which Nine Experienced Hikers Cut Their Way Out of Their Own Tent In February 1959 nine experienced Soviet ski-hikers died on the slope of Kholat Syakhl in the northern Urals. Their tent was found cut open from the inside; the bodies lay up to 1.5 km away, some barefoot in the snow, some with severe internal injuries. Sixty years of theories followed. The modern scientific verdict is a slab avalanche.
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