Event

Dyatlov Pass incident

2 Feb 1959 · 61.75° N, 59.46° E

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When
2 Feb 1959
Kind
Event
Coordinates
61.75° N, 59.46° E
Description
Nine ski hikers mysteriously perish in the northern Ural Mountains in the Dyatlov Pass incident and are all found dead a few weeks later.

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Dyatlov Pass incident

1959 unsolved deaths in the Soviet Union

The Dyatlov Pass incident was an event in which nine Soviet ski hikers died in the northern part of the Ural Mountains ridge in the Russian SFSR on 1 or 2 February 1959 under undetermined circumstances. The experienced trekking group from the Ural Polytechnical Institute embarked on a difficult hike led by Igor Dyatlov, and had established a camp on the eastern slopes of Kholat Syakhl mountain.

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