Expertise and fear doomed the Dyatlov party

This New Yorker article covers the most recent, always-definitive research on the mysterious deaths of the Dyatlov party.

In 1959 a group of adventure-seeking, experienced outdoors young Russians, led by Igor Dyatlov, were not just found dead but oddly mutilated, near a campsite that seemed like it was just fine — minus the frantic slashes in their tent made as they apparently scrambled away. — Read the rest