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The Dylatov Pass Incident: Has One of the Biggest Soviet Mysteries Been Solved?

Summary by Open Culture
Most of us would go out of our way not to set foot anywhere near a place the local natives refer to as “Dead Mountain.” That didn’t stop the Dyatlov Hiking Group, who set out on a sixteen-day skiing expedition across the northern Urals in late January of 1959. Experienced and intrepid, those ten young Soviet ski hikers had what it took to make the journey, at least if nothing went terribly wrong. A bout of sciatica forced one member of the group…
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Open Culture broke the news in on Monday, June 9, 2025.
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