Or a smiley face spray-painted nearby...
Posted on 06/19/2008 9:38:31 AM PDT by el_chupacabra
Someone had chili for dinner? I’ve seen that evacuate a tent pretty damn fast.
Excellent explanation. I hadn’t read the entire article. It’s certainly plausible. That or the Blair witch, eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vizjwkaEk7I&feature=related
Perhaps, there was a false alarm regarding an imminent avalanche (.e.g rumbling sounds, et). They fled the camp in hurry - some getting injured during the evacuation. By the time they decided to head back, it was too late, and they died in the cold.
Drugs.
They're all in one tent?
Everyone freaked out at a percieved rumble of an avalanch ... took off running and the cold slapped them into some semblance of sanity ... but they had ran too far to get back in time to warm their bodies ... 4 went over a cliff.
Drugs ... perhaps even acid.
Or a smiley face spray-painted nearby...
I had one suggestion, but your screen name beat me to it.
From left, Lyudmila Dublinina, Rustem Slobodin, Alexander Zolotaryov and Zina Kolmogorova posing in early 1959.
Yuri Yudin hugging Lyudmila Dublinina as he prepares to leave the group due to illness in late January 1959, as Igor Dyatlov looks on.
A photo developed from a roll of film found at the camp showing skiers setting up camp at about 5. p.m. on Feb. 2, 1959.
Igor Dyatlov
Yuri Yudin
A metal fragment from Igor Dyatlov’s Pass that Kuntsevich believes to be evidence in the case.
A view of the tent as the rescuers found it on Feb. 26, 1959. The tent had been cut open from inside, and most of the skiers had fled in socks or barefoot.
Borscht was more likely to be the cause of the shuffling madness
Bizarre
I remember a bear came in to our camp once and trying to get to our stuff. My brother pulls out his pocket knife and I say “What do you expect to do with that against a bear?”
He answered “Bear?? It’s to cut a hole in the back of the tent if he starts heading this way!”
It was a black bear and we scared him away with shouts and banging pots and pans. About every fifteen minutes afterwards we could hear the same thing as he made his way to all the campsites along the lake!
18 steeeeeekning seconds!
I'm left scratching my head about this,
Thibeaux-Brignollel’s skull had been crushed, and Dubunina and Zolotarev had numerous broken ribs. Dubinina also had no tongue.
hmmm.
"It took two months to locate the remaining skiers. Their bodies were found buried under four meters of snow in a forest ravine, 75 meters away from the pine tree. The four — Nicolas Thibeaux-Brignollel, 24, Ludmila Dubinina, 21, Alexander Zolotaryov, 37, and Alexander Kolevatov, 25 — appeared to have suffered traumatic deaths. Thibeaux-Brignollel’s skull had been crushed, and Dubunina and Zolotarev had numerous broken ribs. Dubinina also had no tongue.
And Dubinina bit it off when her head hit ... being soft tissue, it was eaten as carion.
“...and it doesn’t explain the woman’s missing tongue.”
Or the radiation.
Blairski Witchski Projectsky Beria style.
Where’s Indiana Jones when you really need him?
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