If we're doing links then...
The Dyatlov pass incident
( MatJ LOOK, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 0:53, 11 replies)

Jesus...
Is that for real?! Genuinely creepy and fascinating, thanks.
( Sculpture of Man Putting a banging donk on it since, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 1:08, closed)

^

( 4Q just lurking, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 1:17, closed)

^x2

(dchurch bah, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 7:20, closed)

Read about that before
in this article:

www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html

I still reckon it was aliens. More fun when it's creepy.
(Cylon Bum Raider already knows how this will end, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 9:13, closed)

If they were caught in an avalanche....
Then they would have wounds, ripped tents and hypothermia leading to undressing (it's weird how that works). Missing tongues could have easily been eaten by wildlife.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 13:06, closed)

could this be the answer?
skeptoid.com/episodes/4108
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 8 Apr 2011, 16:22, closed)

As one of the comments there asks,
why no soft tissue damage to go with the broken ribs if there was an avalanche?
Anyway, however plausible a theory one might put forward, it's still just going to be guesswork.
( 4Q just lurking, Sat 9 Apr 2011, 0:38, closed)

I don't know that I like an avalanche as a explanation
I agree that it could have happened once in a blue moon, but what sort of avalanche would be powerful enough to carry rocks with skull-crushing force and still leave the tent where it was originally pitched? I really don't buy that. Nor do I buy the "thought there was an avalanche, before being hit by a co-incidental avalanche" theory. Just too unlikely, and it's very clear that the person writing (as well as in the other link) has no understanding of avalanches at all. Small, rounded hills avalanching? It's like claiming the Japanese tsunami could be recreated in a village duckpond.

I'm not for one second saying there's a paranormal explanation (I firmly beleive it was an entirely explicable affair) but I think that anyone who claims it to be easily solvable is lying or deluded.



Edit: For the record, avalanches are most likely at 38 degrees, and almost impossible at 20.
( MatJ LOOK, Sat 9 Apr 2011, 0:41, closed)

Now imagine
being the last one still alive there. Gives me the chills.
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 22:34, closed)

It's obvious.
Yuri Yudin done it!
(Helmut McBucket invites you to pull his finger on, Sun 10 Apr 2011, 2:08, closed)

I think
radiation from nuclear weapon testing made them all insane...
( RossThePiper Stretch Armstrong is my Father, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 23:49, closed)