"Tenne there is no way to prove otherwise. Your logic is biased , there is nothing to overrule natural events. Tent on slope , in the direction to the destination. Pre data that they organised the hike. Photos to support the journey, diary to support the journey.
I can't prove what happened and you can't either. the tent could have been put up there by people covering up the deaths. there is absolutly no way to prove who set that tent up. You choose to believe they did, I think it was set up to be "found" and put in a location that couldn't be missed
Historical evidence of many tourists carrying their tent on the back pack. Photo of them carrying the tent on their back.
I do not believe that photo shows the tent being carried on the back. I do believe it is designed to look like that, however, no one carries a large package horizontal across their shoulders when skiing through the forest and two, the tent was too heavy to be carried like that, at the angle the body is at, with the weight it would be even if it could be folded up that small every morning. I do not doubt that there is historical evidence of people carrying tents, prove they carried that tent in those conditions
Avalanche exist, weather exists, snow slip , Wolverine exist, possible posining exists, the cold exists, snow cave/holes exist. There is a way to link the prints to them camping, they were there! It is on the whole , natural, death by hypothermia.
There is a line of footprints that have never been conclusively proved to belong to anyone of the hikers. those could have been made at any time before and just exposed now or could be faked. there is zero evidence to prove the hikers made them and when hypothermia causes a flailed chest, I will accept that as a diagnosis
What do you think caused the deaths?"
I believe that they found their sled wasn't going to work to pull the tent and it wasn't going to work to carry it on their backs so they decided to just ski around for the time they had off and then go back and let everyone know they couldn't finish the trip. They ran into an explosive devise and were killed by it. the ones closest to the device were the ones with the most injuries, down to the end of the group that was just knocked out and did actually die of hypothermia. When the bodies were found in an area they were not supposed to be at a time they were not supposed to be there, someone panicked. The diaries were faked, some photos were taken and then the camera's planted. the tent and bodies were planted. That's why nothing adds up, it isn't natural