Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved?
Douglas Preston writes about a new explanation for the fate of the Dyatlov party, a group of Soviet cross-country skiers, whose deaths, in 1959, in the freezing mountains of the Urals, have become a topic of endless speculation.
"Some of the prints indicated that the person was either barefoot or in socks because you could see the toes," — investigator describing evidence from the frozen mountain scene