Facts About the Incident
Fact from Wikipedia and allthatsinteresting.com
Six of the group members died of hypothermia and three of fatal injuries.
There were no indications of other people nearby on Kholat Syakhl apart from the nine travelers.”
The tent had been ripped open from within.
The victims had died 6 to 8 hours after their last meal.
Traces from the camp showed that all group members left the campsite of their own accord, on foot.
To dispel the theory of an attack by the indigenous Mansi people, Dr Vozrozhdenny stated that the fatal injuries of the three bodies could not have been caused by another human being, "because the force of the blows had been too strong and no soft tissue had been damaged".
Released documents contained no information about the condition of the skiers' internal organs.
There were no survivors of the incident.
Reports of slight radiation on the bodies.
The verdict was that the group members all died because of a “compelling natural force”.
Another group of hikers (31 miles south of the incident) reported that they saw strange orange spheres in the sky to the north on the night of the incident.
Similar spheres were observed in Ivdel and adjacent areas continually during the period from February to March 1959, by various independent witnesses (including the meteorology service and the military). However, these sightings were not noted in the initial investigation in 1959, and these various independent witnesses only came forward years later.
Below are some pictures of the actual bodies. (SOMEWHAT GRAPHIC)
