While a small avalanche would be unlikely in normal circumstances, several small factors came together that could have caused one here, a new study says You can save this article by registering for ...

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?—floated to date. New evidence released ...

The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office has reopened the investigation into the mysterious deaths of nine young hikers in the Ural Mountains some 60 years ago. Prosecutor-General's Office spokesman ...

In February 1959, nine experienced hikers died on a remote mountain pass in the ...

A pair of scientists bolster their case that an avalanche killed nine hikers on Russia's Dyatlov Pass in 1959. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier ...

The mysterious deaths of nine Soviet hikers in the Ural Mountains in 1959 has inspired many movies and documentaries. To this day, journalists and tourists come to Russia's Sverdlovsk region to follow ...

The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to an event that resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. It happened on the east shoulder of the ...

A major mystery may finally be solved decades later. The Dyatlov Pass incident has inspired dozens of theories, from rational to zany. How else can one explain the strange deaths of nine experienced ...

In late January of 1959, a group of nine students of the Ural Polytechnical Institute and an older ski instructor departed from the city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) on an expedition to Otorten ...