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Any chance they just all took drugs or something?

stefs 10y ago
maybe, but i don't it's likely. experienced hikers wont chug e's for fun if they're in a potentially dangerous situation. the undressing is due to hypothermia, as explained above. the missing tongue is most likely due to foxes or other predators, they eat the soft tissue first. an avalanche+hypothermia is the most likely explanation.
- guard-of-terra 10y ago
  There are photos of this place and tent on it. No signs of avalanche and inclination is very mild. It's kind of hard to explain why they did not take boots or at least return for them.
  - lb1lf 10y ago
    >It's kind of hard to explain why they did not take boots or at least return for them. -That's presumably just what (probably, obviously this is pure conjecture on my part) the three bodies found apparently heading back to the tent were trying to do? Return to retrieve their kit, that is? I'd reckon fleeing in panic is why they didn't pause to put on their boots and kit in the first place; something caused them to leave in a hurry. What that something was, however, we obviously do not know; my money would be on munitions testing, but YMMV. Now, I didn't see any details in the Wikipedia article or on the (fabulous!) looo.ch site that the rescuers found any inexplicable tracks in the snow, suggesting either that whatever tracks there was had blown over OR that whatever scared them was airborne or at the very least a fair distance from their tent - or, for that matter that the rescuers happened to be encouraged to leave out some details, further indicating the authorities were involved. I agree an avalanche sounds very unlikely, though - both based on the terrain and the fact that at least some of the victims were experienced mountaineers; they simply wouldn't have set up camp anywhere they deemed vulnerable to an avalanche in the first place.
  - hackney 10y ago
    I watched a documentary just the other day about this. They showed how slits were cut facing the treeline only on one side of the tent/s(?). Apparently some of the group stayed in the tents and ran but got nowhere and were killed, while some ran to the treeline. And then at a certain point, the ones hiding behind the trees ran back into the snow and were also killed. This denoted fear and nothing else. A cluster bomb? Then why did anybody run at all? All of the physical damages can not be explained by hungry animals alone, but they could by a powerful beast. The military let slip that they knew of the hikers at least 2 weeks prior to their being found. I really can't think of any military exercise that would have people running in circles without shoes. Nor causing some to run one way to hide, while others run as if being chased. And then there's that one pic of a two-legged hairy creature watching them. Rescuers, if you can call it that, found a slip of paper left in a tent that read in russian, " the snowman exists". Locals call it the migu and say for a fact these 'yeti' like soft flesh and they find deer with their heads ripped off and tongue missing. Yeah, Im going with the migu. Sorry guys.
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stefs 10y ago

maybe, but i don't it's likely. experienced hikers wont chug e's for fun if they're in a potentially dangerous situation. the undressing is due to hypothermia, as explained above. the missing tongue is most likely due to foxes or other predators, they eat the soft tissue first. an avalanche+hypothermia is the most likely explanation.

guard-of-terra 10y ago
There are photos of this place and tent on it. No signs of avalanche and inclination is very mild. It's kind of hard to explain why they did not take boots or at least return for them.
- lb1lf 10y ago
  >It's kind of hard to explain why they did not take boots or at least return for them. -That's presumably just what (probably, obviously this is pure conjecture on my part) the three bodies found apparently heading back to the tent were trying to do? Return to retrieve their kit, that is? I'd reckon fleeing in panic is why they didn't pause to put on their boots and kit in the first place; something caused them to leave in a hurry. What that something was, however, we obviously do not know; my money would be on munitions testing, but YMMV. Now, I didn't see any details in the Wikipedia article or on the (fabulous!) looo.ch site that the rescuers found any inexplicable tracks in the snow, suggesting either that whatever tracks there was had blown over OR that whatever scared them was airborne or at the very least a fair distance from their tent - or, for that matter that the rescuers happened to be encouraged to leave out some details, further indicating the authorities were involved. I agree an avalanche sounds very unlikely, though - both based on the terrain and the fact that at least some of the victims were experienced mountaineers; they simply wouldn't have set up camp anywhere they deemed vulnerable to an avalanche in the first place.
- hackney 10y ago
  I watched a documentary just the other day about this. They showed how slits were cut facing the treeline only on one side of the tent/s(?). Apparently some of the group stayed in the tents and ran but got nowhere and were killed, while some ran to the treeline. And then at a certain point, the ones hiding behind the trees ran back into the snow and were also killed. This denoted fear and nothing else. A cluster bomb? Then why did anybody run at all? All of the physical damages can not be explained by hungry animals alone, but they could by a powerful beast. The military let slip that they knew of the hikers at least 2 weeks prior to their being found. I really can't think of any military exercise that would have people running in circles without shoes. Nor causing some to run one way to hide, while others run as if being chased. And then there's that one pic of a two-legged hairy creature watching them. Rescuers, if you can call it that, found a slip of paper left in a tent that read in russian, " the snowman exists". Locals call it the migu and say for a fact these 'yeti' like soft flesh and they find deer with their heads ripped off and tongue missing. Yeah, Im going with the migu. Sorry guys.
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