Frosted Flakes: Dyatlov Pass, 66 Pounds of Oranges and ‘Traveling Under the Social Influence’
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That’s a lot of oranges
One of the strangest mysteries that has fascinated me the most was the Dyatlov Pass incident. A group of hikers never returned after leaving on a trip into the Ural Mountains. The causes of death ranged from internal bleeding, head trauma and hypothermia.
A National Geographic article released last week (I posted the article below) declared that the cause of the death was releated to a small avalanche. It seems convincing enough after reading the article and watching some other recent videos about the incident (see below) but I’m curious to hear everyone else’s thoughts about the recent findings.
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The documentary âHalpateâ shows how the dangerous sport evolved from a means of survival and an exploitative spectacle, in Floridaâs changing landscape.
When an American alligator bites down, its jaws can exert up to three thousand pounds of force. In 2011, on a sunny day in the swamplands of South Florida, one bit Clinton Holt on the head.
Holt is a Seminole alligator wrestler a few years retired. During a live wrestling show at a Native village, he held a gatorâs mouth open with his hands and slowly inched his head inside, a crowd-pleaser stunt. On this occasion, he made a mistake, tilting his head and brushing his ear against the roof of the gatorâs mouth. The jaws closed shut. A number of handlers rushed immediately to his side, to free him but first to make sure that the alligator didnât roll over and potentially snap Holtâs neck, a move known in wrestling parlance as the âdeath roll.â In âHalpate,â