DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT
DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT In January 1959, nine Soviet college students were killed under mysterious circumstances while hiking through the Ural Mountains in what's now known as the Dyatlov Pass incident. The Ural Mountains or simply the Urals , are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia , from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan . The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia . In January 1959, 23-year-old ski hiker Igor Alekseievich Dyatlov and his team of nine experienced ski hikers from the Ural Polytechnical Institute embarked on a journey to reach the peak of Otorten, a mountain in the Northern Urals. The route they used, in the early months, witnesses bizarre weather conditions resulting in the illness of a team member who was forced to come back due to this. The remaining nine kept on going and were expected back b