Uncovering the Real Cause of the Dyatlov Pass Incident: A Failed Russian Missile Launch and a Nitric Acid Fog?

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• The Dyatlov Pass Incident, a 1959 hiking tragedy in the remote Russian mountains, has been the source of countless theories.

• Nine hikers have been mysteriously killed, but new evidence points to military action as the cause of death.

• Did a failed launch of an R-12 ballistic missile create a nitric acid fog and kill the walkers?

The potential truth of what really killed nine hikers in the remote Russian mountains in 1959 may be far stranger than the conspiracy theories – a yeti, anyone? – which have been circulated to this day. New evidence released around the 64th anniversary of the tragic event points to failed Russian missile launches and a hovering nitric acid fog as the real culprit.

In a tragedy known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident, a group of nine students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute led by Igor Dyatlov planned a 16-day, 215-mile trek that began on February 2, 1959. But when the hikers didn’t check in, a search operation began on February 20. Searchers eventually found all nine bodies in their underwear near torn tents.

With no physical injuries or signs of struggle, and with all valuables nearby, investigators at the time believed all the hikers left the tent together and died suddenly. While criminal proceedings were opened, they were quickly concluded in May 1959. The official cause of death: exposure to the elements.

But that just wasn’t a clear explanation for the disaster, and many people have for decades theorized as to what actually caused the Dyatlov Pass incident. Add to this reports that the morgue was immediately sealed off, the KGB intervened (even sending out hikers’ organs for lab work) and regular procedures were curtailed, and the truth hasn’t come easy.

An attempt by the Prosecutor General’s Office in the Ural Federal District in 2019 hoped to dispel the wildest theories. It didn’t seem to help. The bureau concluded that a slab avalanche forced hikers to suddenly abandon their tent and run up to 50 meters away. But because of the weather, they could not return and froze to death.

The The theory didn’t hold up either. Last week, on the eve of the 64th anniversary of the tragedy, a Russian newsletter reported a press conference unveiling a new theory – and this time the relatives of the deceased hikers are on board. Researchers now say a failed Russian rocket launch caused a man-made disaster that hit the unsuspecting hikers.

Vladislav Karelin, a 1959 searcher and now a researcher of the Dyatlov Pass incident, says the idea of ​​an avalanche just isn’t true. He recalls that the area had “rocks sticking out” and that there wasn’t enough snow to warrant an avalanche. However, he recalls that the entire search team saw a fireball moving from east to west in the area. Other witnesses around the same time said they saw a ball shooting from south to north. More from Karelin according to the Russian report:

“Some unidentified object flew from south to north, and then it changed direction and flew from east to west. Only some kind of winged, unidentified object could change the trajectory.”

Researcher Vadim Skibinsky believes that the fireballs were the exhaust gases from a launched rocket. Not only did Russia conduct rocket launch tests in February 1959, the snow around the camp was reportedly melting, but not at other nearby locations, leading to a man-made conclusion instead of a weather event.

The research team believes the launch — and subsequent failure — of an R-12 liquid medium-range single-stage ballistic missile caused a nitric acid mist to reach the tent. Given that the tests took place within range of the mountains, and that nitric acid is a colorless, highly corrosive mineral acid used as an oxidizer in liquid-propelled rockets and can cause confusion and pain, the continued search for the truth about the Dyatlov Pass incident could be one Effect have moved far beyond the exposure and avalanche directly into a fog.

But was it a mist of nitric acid?

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