The Dyatlov Pass Massacre
<p>In the winter of 1959, a group of young hikers said goodbye to their families and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">embarked on a journey</a> through the Ural Mountains in Western Russia, not realizing they would never return home.</p>
<p>The Urals are an ancient and rugged landscape — at 300 million years old, the land wasn’t settled by modern day Russians until the 17th century. Within the next hundred years copper, iron ore and other minerals were discovered, and are still extracted from the mountains today. The mysterious region also hosts covert government operations within its mountain ranges. Throughout WWII and the Cold War, secret Soviet military bases were erected, easily concealed by the vast wilderness.</p>
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