Were they murdered by the military after witnessing some kind of secret test? Was it UFOs or just an avalanche? The final report by investigators, which is murky at best, blames “an unknown compelling force.” Eichar marries the short story of the students’ lives with the procedural tale of the official investigation and then integrates his own amateur investigation. It was a gruesome scene, made more so by a flood of conspiracy theories. None were fully dressed, as if they had fled suddenly in the dead of night. When the group was finally found, six had died of exposure, while three were found to have traumatic, blunt-force injuries. In 1959, nine young hikers suddenly disappeared in the northern Ural Mountains. “The Dyatlov Pass Incident” is quite famous in some circles, especially in Russia and the Baltics, but little-known outside the former Iron Curtain. An American documentary filmmaker drops into the well of one of Soviet Russia’s greatest mysteries.Įichar, who has shot everything from short documentaries to TV pilots, applies a documentarian’s eye to this thorough but inconclusive investigation into one of the East’s most controversial tragedies.
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