Subsequent snowfalls in the weeks after the incident could have smoothed this angle, making the slope appear smaller while also covering signs of an avalanche, the team wrote. In their study, the researchers learned that the angle of the slope near the hiker's campsite was actually steeper than previous reports indicated the slope angle measured 28 degrees, compared with the area's average slope angle of 23 degrees. (Image credit: Дмитрий Никишин/ Creative Commons) A 'brutal force of nature' The tomb of the nine hikers who died in the northern Ural Mountains. The team's analysis showed that the avalanche hypothesis stands up to every counterargument. They studied records from the time of the Dyatlov incident to recreate the environmental conditions that the hikers most likely faced on the night of their deaths, and then used a digital avalanche model to test whether a slab avalanche could have plausibly occurred under those conditions. In their paper, Gaume and study co-author Alexander Puzrin, a researcher at the Institute for Geotechnical Engineering in Zurich, Switzerland, set out to address each of these critiques. Finally, some of the hikers had sustained head and chest injuries that avalanches usually don't cause, Gaume said. Third, there's evidence that the hikers fled their tents in the middle of the night, meaning the avalanche was triggered hours after the highest risk event, when the hikers built their camp - a process that involved cutting into the face of the slope to create a flat surface below their tent and a sheer wall of snow next to it (a common practice at the time, the study authors wrote). Second, the slope where the hikers built their camp had an incline of less the 30 degrees, which is typically considered the minimum angle for an avalanche to occur, Gaume said.
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