Nine experienced hikers chose death in -40°F weather over whatever terrified them inside their tent

By Anonymous / Soviet investigators -

Nine experienced hikers fled their tent in the dead of night, choosing certain death in -40°F weather over whatever horrified them inside. Their half-cut tent was found a month later, still containing nine pairs of boots and the group's journals.

The 1959 Dyatlov Pass incident began as a routine winter expedition — ni…