Why Can Nobody Solve the Mystery of Dyatlov Pass?

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Writing: Bevan Rees
Editing: Jack Stevens
Script Development: Steven Rix

[bofaftt]

imagine surviving a horror movie because you have bad knees..

[googlelover]

In light of all the speculation surrounding what happened at Dyatlov Pass, the only survivor, Yuri Yudin, was often asked what he thought happened to his companions. He maintained until his death in 2013 that the Soviet military had to be involved in the deaths. Yudin believed his friends stumbled across a military exercise and that the Soviet government bore responsibility for the loss of his companions. He said that all his companions were expert hikers and skiers and were well equipped to handle natural phenomena like avalanches or snowstorms.

Yudin noted that after searchers found the campsite, the military was more concerned with what the skiers were doing in the area, not what had happened to them.

After searchers found the hikers, Yudin was asked to identify the items collected at the campsite. Yudin said some items did not belong to his fellow hikers, including glasses, a pair of skis, fragments of a ski, and a piece of cloth he identified as part of a soldier's coat. In a journal that Yudin kept all his research of the event in, which came to light after his death, Yudin referred to "soldiers' tape" and wrote he was confident it was among the items he was asked to identify. Yudin claims in his journal that he tried to bring this to the colonel's attention who was with him at the time, but he ignored it. Yudin speculated that before the official search found the hikers' campsite, the military had already been there and pointed to these items as proof.

Yudin also posed the rhetorical question: if something as mundane as an avalanche caused the death of his friends, why did the government close the case so quickly and mark it as classified?

Yudin also noted in his journal that there was one factor at the site of his friends' deaths that none of the "normal" suggestions could explain: the mild radioactivity of the clothes and bodies of the deceased hikers.

[tototakto]

an avalanche that rips peoples eyes out, leaves traces of radiation and shaves their eyebrows, sounds legit to me

[janverbanck]

Strikes me as odd that, after 10 days or so in the Russian winter, they still immediately found all their footprints...

[christopher]

Omg I haven’t watched in almost 2 years and he looks like a ww1 commander 😂😂😂

[therranolleo]

funny how the delivery makes so much difference in the tone and mood of the video, Lemmino's version was delivered in so much eeriness and horror that shook the bone, meanwhile T2 has a more lax approach with jokes along the side

[donaldduck]

10:58 I’ve taken more shrooms than most people could imagine at once and never have I gouged peoples eyes out and beaten them to death in the woods. Definitely don’t think it had anything to do with magic mushrooms😂😂

[CD-eyyv]

I can remember reading somewhere that there was a broken compass found in the tent. The luminous paint used in compasses up until the 1960’s was based on radium which is highly radioactive and could explain why there was radiation found on the bodies.

[ldawg]

The dyatlov pass incident is one of the most fascinating, crazy a mysterious cases I have ever heard. Watched any and all material I see about it, and it's still has never ceased to absolutely fascinate me

[superfire]

“Death mountain”
Oh yes, let’s go hiking there

[dawgpost]

I actually think the "killer fart in the tent theory" holds up. Mystery solved.

[Magnus]

There were 2 moments in my life, when I could've died, even though I took it too easy, but Dyatlov pass mystery fucks with my soul, really terrifies Me, I've been working as mountain guide for many years already and imagining something like this could happen to Me and my group is lot to think about.

[HarmKaban]

Your careful attempts at pronouncing the names are quite admirable

[KineticSymphony]

A weapon's test makes the most sense imo, could easily explain the radiation, strange injuries, subjective panic & why the government tried to cover it up.

[AbhijitBiswasDBZ]

When the artificial aliens showed up on screen, i got a little scared 😂😂😂 the animation quality of your videos has gone through the roof

[Gstv]

I died laughing when he said, "But that doesn't explain the missing eyebrows".

[lanecapps]

That guy that didn't follow through with the hike is one of the luckiest man on earth!

[homemedia]

The mystery of the missing "Buy my new book 'Stick a flag in it'" may also never be solved!

[alsmith]

As an Australian, living in a dry state, when I hear this it's hard to imagine that kind of cold.

[ercerc]

This subject was also covered by Mr. Ballen. It is a joy to see it discussed from two different people with different styles of videos.