Hello Ziljoe,
I hope that challenges you have faced are managable and I wish you to overcome them asap.
I don't think that we have only two options for the traumatic force - snow and a fallen tree. The World has more colours. SURI keeps talking about an infiltrator to the group, who had planned the DPI long before the hike and executed the plan when the group had reached 1079. This is interesting theory to look at and discuss, but SURI obviously is not ready to share the whole theory at this time. However, it's a road to try.
If we look into the Dr.Vozrozhdenny interrogation report, it becomes clear that the force which he suggested was high-speed. A gust of strong wind, a blast airwave, an automobile - all these move at very high speed, not less than 20 m/sec. He also suggested that the force had kicked the hikes, so they had spent some time flying and had hard landing afterwards. I do not know about a fallen tree, but snow collapse in the ravine could not achieve such a speed.
There were many events 'behind the scene' that indicate that DPI was not just a natural calamity. You might be interested to run a small investigation into Mr. Alexander Kidin abrupt career change which happened on April 10th, 1959 - the same day Central Committee of CPSU received the DPI investigation report from its Sverdlovsk branch office.
Thank you Senior.
Obviously we can add anything we want to the incident but I'm working within the confines of what we can observe with the evidence we have and with the modern access to medical papers. Unfortunately such things weren't available in 59.
It is clear Dr.Vozrozhdenny has given suggestions and that's it. Given the location of the bodies under all that snow , I would have thought Ivanov in the added on questions , would have asked if the snow or snow collapse could have caused the injuries found.
To not eliminate the snow mass as a possible cause of the injured leads me to think that1) the case files are possibly fake , that2) the questions were contrived to create a narrative by Ivanovo or3) or general incompetence.
A fallen tree or a snow collapse does not need to reach a certain speed to cause the injured found, in fact , a slow compression fits the injuries far better than the implication of bodies flying about. The autopsy findings doesn't allow for blasts or car crashes. The suggestions don't fit the full picture of the autopsy findings , it solely fixes on the broken bones and I find that challenging in a professional capacity.
I do not know of any behind the scene events and A.Kindin is a modern myth bolted on I think?.