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Avalanches

Close editorial interpretation of a torn, partly collapsed canvas tent and tracks across a snowy Ural slope, referring to the discovered Dyatlov campsite rather than reconstructing the departure.

Case file 018Crime & Mystery

Mountain of the dead

Nine hikers left their tent on a frozen Ural slope; the surviving records explain much of their ordeal, but leave its first moments unresolved.