Buckle up, everyone, this story is *wild*.
The 62-year-old Dyatlov Pass mystery, in which nine students died at the hands of an unknown force, has likely been solved thanks to the movie Frozen and gruesome car crash experiments.
Me, for @NatGeo + thread!
When a search team arrived at Kholat Saykhl a few weeks later, the tent was found just barely sticking out of the snow, and it appeared cut open from the inside. The next day, the first of the bodies was found near a cedar tree. 4/x
So two scientists, snow aficionado Johan Gaume and landslide expert Alexander Puzrin, decided to team up and take on the mystery. 10/x
For that, the team turned to the movie Frozen. Yes, that movie. 13/x
“People don’t want it to be an avalanche,” says Gaume. “It’s too normal.” 27/x
Science rocks.
End.
(cc: @kristinromey)
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