Mount Everest: remote, treacherous and with barely enough oxygen to survive. A century ago no-one had reached the summit … Brave pathfinders risked everything. Everest: Conquering the Death Zone, Channel 5 2021
The Himalayas stretch 1,500 miles through northern Asia. This cold white world is home to the planet’s tallest peaks. ibid.
‘So this is it. This is what they came to see. This is what they came to climb.’ ibid. newsreel
‘This advance party must advance through a frozen but burning forest. A forest as haunted by danger as any jungle in the world. A nightmare of spikes and chasms, a wrinkled and ravaged face, but a face that is always changing. For the ice is always on the move. Cracking, rumbling, roaring.’ ibid.
An infamous Cold War cold case. Nine hikers found mutilated on a remote mountain slope. Their injuries and the facts don’t seem to add up. History’s Greatest Mysteries s3e2: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
The Soviet Union 1959: On February 26th high up in Siberia’s Ural Mountains … three cross-country skiers spot a solitary tent partially collapsed by snow. ibid.
Friends and family remark that the cadavers have an unnaturally orange appearance ... Exactly what are they covering up? ibid.
Supporters of the Yeti theory also point to photos of the bodies that show what appears to be abject terror. ibid.
Crazed students on a death-wish. What drove this group of Russian explorers to their graves? … 60 years later it’s still not clear what killed these students. Conspiracies Decoded s1e1: Discovery 2022
January 27th 1959 Dyatlov Pass, USSR: Something killed these students and left them with bizarre injuries … Could infrasound explain why the students left their camp site? … The bizarre deaths of nine Russian students in the wilderness in 1959. ibid.
1959: What happened to a group of grad students in the Soviet wilderness in 1959 was nothing short of a massacre … Some say the students were killed by a Yeti who was stalking the area. Others believe they were murdered after stumbling across a secret government weapons testing area. True Crime Recaps: The Unsolved Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass, Youtube 18.57, 2022
It doesn’t explain why they left the tent in the first place and why their skin was a dark reddish-brown. ibid.
When search parties discovered their bodies … Nikolai’s skull was damaged … Lyudmila and Semyon had been crushed … both their eyes were missing and Lyudmila’s tongue was also gone, so were her lips and part of her cheek and skull bone … Alexander had a strange bruise behind his ear and his neck was twisted and broken … Their clothes … were highly radioactive … Some of the victims were found with their mouths and eyes open, their faces frozen in a terrified expression … and their hair was turning grey … So what happened up there? ibid.