S1E10 - The Dyatlov Pass Incident: What Happened on the Mountain of the Dead?

What does it take to make nine experienced, skilled mountaineers flee their tent into -30°C darkness, tearing through the canvas from the inside? The Dyatlov Pass Incident is not just a mystery; it’s a crime scene on a mountainside where the evidence defies all logical explanation. This episode journeys to the Ural Mountains in January 1959. We follow the team led by Igor Dyatlov as they aim for Otorten, a mountain whose name warns “Don’t go there.” Using the known facts from the investigation, we reconstruct their final camp on the ominously named Kholat Syakhl—the “Mountain of the Dead”—and...