Putin may have an interest in my blog.........college students doing some hiking......disappeared.....similar stories, everywhere........aliens?

The date gives part of it away, the space race, USSR and USA.....kinda like the aliens r like, these humans r moving forward.............after millions of years with slow progress, and an un Godly number of wars...they are really making strides to make space....1959...what a time in our history!!

The Dyatlov Pass Incident: Why the Hiker Deaths Remain a Mystery

In February 1959, nine hikers were killed while trekking in the Ural Mountains. The Soviet government originally attributed a “compelling natural force” as the cause.

On January 23, 1959, 10 hikers set out for a winter trek through Russia’s Ural Mountains. One turned back after several days for medical reasons, but the other nine continued along their route. They had planned to send a message back to their sports club about three weeks after taking off; so when the club didn’t hear from them by February 20, a search party set out to find the hikers.

Over the next couple of weeks, the search party found the first five of the hiker’s bodies spread out over the snow. They were in various states of dress and had bizarre injuries, with one appearing to have bitten off part of his own knuckle.

Months later, after some snow melt, investigators discovered the bodies of the remaining four hikers. They had even more inexplicable injuries. One had a fractured skull, another had a twisted neck, two were missing their eyes and one of the bodies with no eyes was also missing her tongue.

The gruesome fate of the nine hikers has generated theories ranging from natural disasters to secret weapons testing to an attack by yetis. Although some theories are more plausible than others, the “Dyatlov Pass incident,” as it is known, remains a contentious and unsolved mystery.

Dyatlov Pass Named After Student Who Planned the Trek

The Dyatlov Pass—the section of the Ural Mountains that the hikers were trekking to—is named after the leader of the fateful expedition: Igor Dyatlov. Dyatlov was a 23-year-old student studying engineering at the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Soviet Russia. He planned the trip with eight other students at the institute who were in their early 20s. All of the students were experienced hikers, as was the sports instructor in his late 30s who joined the expedition.

About five days into the journey, student Yuri Yudin decided to leave the hiking team and head back due to a sciatica flare-up. If he had stayed with them just a few days longer, he might have died in whatever accident killed them. That’s because around February 1, the nine hikers pitched their tent for the last time.

Search Party Finds Bodies—and Baffling Scene

When the search party found the tent, it was collapsed and covered in snow. Inside, the hikers’ belongings were relatively undisturbed. The team found the hikers’ boots, clothes and equipment neatly arranged in the tent, and food was sliced up on a plate as if the hikers were preparing to eat it. The tent was slashed open and, as a seamstress later observed, someone had made the cut from the inside.

The first two bodies the search party found were those of students Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonishchenko several hundred yards away from the tent. They were lying in their underwear next to the remains of a fire. A medical examiner later noted that Krivonishchenko had burns on his body and a piece of flesh in his mouth that he had bitten off of his own hand.