Explaining the icy mystery of the Dyatlov Pass deaths

A sixty-year-old mystery from Soviet Russia could be explained by studying the science of snow. When nine students died on a hiking trip in the Ural Mountains in 1959 it sparked decades of debate and controversy. Now researchers have analysed the precise location of the fatal accident and the weather conditions as they were sixty years ago. Modelling the conditions and the behaviour of the snow suggests a slab avalanche could have been responsible for the deaths. Read the paper here: