With Hollywood pushing a massive campaign to create idiotic re-makes and no-nonsense propaganda action movies why not look at interesting real stories as this!

Dyatlov Pass Incident:

The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to an event that resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. It happened on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl (a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has since been named Dyatlov Pass after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov. The lack of eyewitnesses has inspired much speculation. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths. Access to the area was barred for skiers and other adventurers for three years after the incident. The chronology of the incident remains unclear due to the lack of survivors.

Investigators at the time determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot into heavy snow and a temperature of -30°C. Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. Their clothing, when tested, was found to be highly radioactive.

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Skeptoid did an episode on this a while back:

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4108

In short, 5 people left camp (or didn't make it back before dark) and got lost. The four others went looking for them when dawn broke and were probably hit by an avalanche.

As to the radioactivity, the Wiki Talk page advises that the reports about radiation don't exactly mean what is written:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dyatlov_Pass_incident#radioactivity_testing



Skeptoid is actually a pretty decent site for figuring out plausible explanations for things that we don't understand. I recommend you also listen to his episode on the Mary Celeste:

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4289

Found out that a lot of the things I "knew" about the incident were just flat out made up.