In mid-January, 1959, a group of students and recent graduates from Ural Polytechnic Institute

departed from the city of Svarytslovsk, Russia, on an expedition into the northern Ural Mountains.

Each member of the group was extremely experienced in lengthy ski tours and mountain expeditions

and would all earn the distinguished Grade 3 hiking certification, the highest obtainable in the country,

upon completing their journey. When the hikers hadn't arrived home as expected, a search and rescue

mission began. Over the span of the next few months, a horrifying discovery would be made. The bodies

of all nine hikers would be found scattered in various states of struggle within a mile of their

last campsite. Some with fatal blunt force trauma to their

head or chest, many missing shoes and clothing, and another was even missing her tongue. The

prosecutor at the time closed the investigation stating that the hikers died of an unknown,

compelling force, a vague determination that has left room for many theories in the past 60 years,

ranging from UFOs to government conspiracy.

What caused these experienced hikers to flee their only shelter

into total blackness, sub-zero temperatures,

and imminent death that night, which would be their last?

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All right, guys, here we are yet again.

We're covering Dietloff Pass.

We had to take a little break from the just... Murder.

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