What would histology tell us?

[GlennM]

I read that the lack of histological tests is possible justification to re open the case. What are those tests going to yield? To me, the priority would be first and foremost, locating the original samples. Once any samples were obtained, I can only think that poisoning would be the one and only thing to be ruled out. Does anybody seriously believe the group was accidentally or intentionally poisoned? I think not.! Further I do not think hallucinogens as a poison were involved . The hikers left the tent in far too straight a line.

Later, the rescue team drank the alcohol. Canned goods were appropriated. Nobody died.Nobody flipped out.

What I think is going on is the missing histological reports is the proverbial thin entering wedge to open and widen this case. To what end? To better assess the 1959 case records and revise them. Next, to discredit the loose and sensationalistic commentary by persons directly and indirectly associated with the case. Exhuming 60+ year old remains is not going to reveal much.

What I would like to see is whether there is a link between the geological activities at the time and the DPI. I would like to see the weather report that Teddy could not get without paying a ransom for. I would like confirmation that there was no military activity nor cover up associated with the DPI.  I want confirmation of any meteorite or bolide which would link to a slab slide.
I would like wind tunnel tests and computer modelling.

Personally, I think it is all down to weather...except the DP9 acted differently in many regards than I would given the circumstances.

[SURI]

Only the weather as the cause of DP9's death does not fit with this statement by Ivanov:

„The true causes of the deaths were hidden from the people, and only a few knew these reasons: the former first secretary of the regional committee A.P. Kirilenko, the second secretary of the regional committee A.F. Eshtokin, the regional prosecutor N. I. Klimov and the author of these lines, who were investigating the case“

And the rocket theory does not correspond to these words of Ivanov:

„Someone needed to frighten or punish people, or show their strength, and they did this, killing three people“.

Conclusion:
So there was something to hide, but it wasn't rockets.

[GlennM]

Killing 9 Soviet athletes questing for Master of Sport is bad politics. These people exemplify Russian ideals to friends and community youth.The national government was putting its best foot forward. Killing kids in the middle of nowhere is wrong headed thinking and a policy which only produces public distaste for authority.

Additionally those brave souls who later advocate for that unlikely murderous explanation would gamble with their own lives if there  were a kernel of truth in any of it.

...Or

It is sensationalized smoke and mirrors invention designed to make money off the dead because it is all make believe conspiracies.

The conundrum for me is reconciling the deliberate deaths of nine people in a remote location ostensibly to make some sort of example of them, which of course did not happen. On the other hand those few officials who knew to keep quiet did not keep their mouths shut.  This is all nonsense on stilts.

[sarapuk]

I read that the lack of histological tests is possible justification to re open the case.

Personally, I think it is all down to weather...except the DP9 acted differently in many regards than I would given the circumstances.

You bring up weather a lot as the cause of what happened. How about a thorough explanation that the weather caused all the separate incidents, at the tent site and on the slope and at the forest and in the so-called ravine. 

[GlennM]

My position on the matter is that the hikers made little progress on their last hiking day because of the weather. I believe they made camp relatively early and as soon as they excavated and levelled a place for skis, they pitched their tent. The result was that the tent was exposed to the wind and snow buildup for an even longer period of time than what would be considered normal.

When the tent collapsed under the crush of snow, the group determined that under the conditions they could not get ahead of the elements in order to clear, repair and repitch their tent. They intended to sort things out when the weather abated.

The descent to the woods was longer and more hazardous than anticipated. The cold was relentless. Everything that happened in the woods was a consequence of trying to keep protected from the elements of wind and cold.

My guess is that the bad weather did not abate as they may have hoped. Heroisms were in vain,  plans were compromised and Nature was indifferent. Bad things happen to good people.