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Title: Forensic constraints on the tent-site trauma in the Dyatlov incident
Post by: Teddy on May 04, 2026, 04:02:52 AM

FORENSIC CONSTRAINS ON THE TENT-SITE TRAUMA IN DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT (https://dyatlovpass.com/caroline-detry)

Caroline Detry, Independent Researcher, Namur, Belgium

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Title: Re: Forensic constraints on the tent-site trauma in the Dyatlov incident
Post by: GlennM on July 14, 2026, 12:37:47 PM

What I am reading is an opinion that the kinds of injuries found on the victims is inconsistent with the crushing force on the tent. Consequently, it is unlikely that those with crippling injuries would be able to, let alone better off by evacuating the tent for the cover of the forest. I can accept that conclusion readily. I can also accept the corollary that the injuries were sustained away from the tent. I also accept that the tent was not moved by the hikers from the forest to the slope. In fact, the footprints make it clear that nobody a ground level walked the tent uphill either.

I have difficulty with the differentiation between avalanche, slab slide and slump. It is clear that outside ski poles were broken and mooring lines detached from the tent. That does not happen by itself.  The tent had end poles which were not knocked down, so that rules out a large sweeping rush of snow. (think avalanche). However, anything less than that causes me to think, it was not so bad that they (nine of them) couldn't clear the snow and repair the tent at the time. Yet, they left in an orderly way.

If we had evidence that any one person was blown down the slope and others formed a rescue party, that would explain much, but the footprints and other trace evidence do not support it. I certainly do not think slashing up a serviceable tent is going to aide in the rescue of a fellow hiker.

The tent was cut in a way that is consistent with survival in a snow slide.  Too, the footprints of the hikers was obscured a few hundred meters below the tent, was that another snow slide? For me, the only explanation which does not require the piling on of additional assumptions is  that it was snow, more than a slump and less than an avalanche which trapped them in the canvas. I suspect that darkness and  canvas layered with heavy snow, made them cut free. The forest was just  tentative refuge until conditions improved. All the injuries happened on the way down, while there and on the way back.
   

Title: Re: Forensic constraints on the tent-site trauma in the Dyatlov incident
Post by: sarapuk on July 30, 2026, 02:05:33 PM

It seems like we have 4 areas where injuries may have occurred or certainly occurred. [1] The tent area. [2] The slope area. [3] The forest area. [4] The ravine area. Of those 4 areas, the one at the ravine seems to be where the most gruesome injuries occurred, unless bodies were transported to the ravine area from somewhere else.

Title: Re: Forensic constraints on the tent-site trauma in the Dyatlov incident
Post by: Caroline on September 19, 2026, 10:42:17 AM

My opinion after reading the autopsies : TB, Dubinina and Zolotaryov didn't sustain any injury at the tent site... too far, too long.   And Rustem Slobodin after being injured was deeply confused.  He tried to walk afterwards but falled repetitively. it's very unlikely he was injured in the forest or the tent... On the contrary I think he was injured during his way back to the tent.

Title: Re: Forensic constraints on the tent-site trauma in the Dyatlov incident
Post by: amashilu on September 19, 2026, 11:02:14 AM

Quote from: Caroline on September 19, 2026, 10:42:17 AM

My opinion after reading the autopsies : TB, Dubinina and Zolotaryov didn't sustain any injury at the tent site... too far, too long.

I agree.

Quote from: Caroline on September 19, 2026, 10:42:17 AM

And Rustem Slobodin after being injured was deeply confused.  He tried to walk afterwards but falled repetitively. it's very unlikely he was injured in the forest or the tent... On the contrary I think he was injured during his way back to the tent.

I'm curious, why do you rule out as he was leaving the tent?

Title: Re: Forensic constraints on the tent-site trauma in the Dyatlov incident
Post by: Axelrod on September 20, 2026, 02:24:24 AM

Quote from: amashilu on September 19, 2026, 11:02:14 AM

I'm curious, why do you rule out as he was leaving the tent?

A version like this is known from the testimony of my relative.

The group is running. But these are not animals; they are young, energetic Soviet people. They are running in one or two groups. Somewhere along a rocky ridge, Slobodin sustains a head injury and soon collapses. But the tent is nowhere to be seen; the cold snow

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burns their feet—or perhaps Slobodin is bringing up the rear of the fleeing group and is left lying on the snow. And somewhere earlier still, Zina Kolmogorova had become separated and lost sight of the others. After wandering for a long time, she too lies down in the snow. The rest make it to the forest,

I must state that my relative’s opinion is delusional. It is all the more strange given that he was present when Slobodin was dug out of the snow on March 5th. It is odd to imagine a person falling while descending yet ending up with his head pointing back toward the tent.
He also writes that the watch was on the right wrist, yet in the photograph, we see the watch on the left wrist.

Title: Re: Forensic constraints on the tent-site trauma in the Dyatlov incident
Post by: SURI on September 20, 2026, 03:18:20 AM

Once again, "Ivanov" failed to write his own title correctly, leaving out the hyphen.

прокурор–криминалист
прокурор криминалист

ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
criminal prosecutor