Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident and the Cold War Secrecy That Kept It a Mystery
On the night of February 1, 1959, nine experienced hikers pitched a tent on the open eastern shoulder of Kholat Syakhl, a bare, wind-scoured mountain in the northern Urals whose Mansi name is usually translated as "Dead Mountain." Sometime that night they cut their way out of the tent and walked, most of them without boots, toward a forest a mile away. None of them came back. For sixty years the…
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