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The Dyatlov Pass Incident has been a mystery since 1959. Did an avalanche sweep the hikers away? Jacob Dubé © Provided by National Post Broken tent covered with snow as it was found during the search 26 days after the event. In February 1959, a group of nine mountaineers mostly students at the Ural Polytechnical Institute in their early 20s set off on a daunting expedition to the Ural mountains in Western Russia, never to be seen again. The group, led by 23-year-old Igor Dyatlov, were all experienced hikers. They had planned to hike to the farthest reaches of the Sverdlovsk Oblast region. Considering the weather at that point in the year, the Soviet Union had classified the trek as extremely difficult.

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