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I watched Lemmino's mini documentary on the subject and can only recommend it [1]. He spent a month going through the Russian original evidence and is surprised
by Pyramus 6y ago
I watched Lemmino's mini documentary on the subject and can only recommend it [1]. He spent a month going through the Russian original evidence and is surprised why it is still considered an "unresolved mystery".
Some take-aways that I remember:
* They had a self-made, wood-fired oven in the tent, which had already burned one of the hikers a couple of days before (documented in a picture) and could have malfunctioned, leading to the burn marks and them having to abandon the tent (including slashing it open)
* Radioactivity: Both hikers that had traces worked previously in a nuclear facility.
* Missing organs: Exactly what you would expect from scavenging animals.
* Missing clothes: Exactly what is expected when dying from hypothermia.
* Bodily injuries: Suspected avalanche.
* Glowing orange spheres: Possibly space debris, a meteor or nuclear testing. In any case, no immediate connection to the accident.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RigxxiilI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RigxxiilI (conclusion from 12:42)
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- sandworm101 6y agoAnd alcohol. There is precious little inquiry as to how much alcohol was present at the campsite. Some of the strange behaviors make more sense if one is open to the possibility that some people may have been drunk.
- lqet 6y agoAccording to Wikipedia: > There were no drugs present and the only alcohol was a small flask of medicinal alcohol, found intact at the scene. The group had even sworn off cigarettes for the expedition.
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- nateberkopec 6y agoLoved that video. The avalanche theory still has some explanatory power as the proximate cause of the first point, although Lemmino points out how crappy the design of the stove was in the first place IIRC.