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To the east of the Ural mountains, in Yekaterinburg city cemetery, there is a group grave of 9 members from a hiking group who died mysteriously.TimelineArrived by train at Ivdel a town at the centre of the northern province of Sverdlovsk Oblast on 25th January 1959.Took a truck ride to Vizhai (last settlement towards the north).Hikers purchased and had loaves of bread when they were in Vizhai to keep energy high.Started trek towards Otorten from Vizhai on 27th January.Yuri Yudin returned on 28th due to health issues.On 31st, the hikers arrived at a highland area and started preparing for their climb. They saved surplus food in a wooded area for their return hike.Snowstorms resulted in hikers being deviated from their intended path and ended up on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl (Dead Mountain).Group decided to camp on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl instead of hiking all the way back into the wooded area about 1.5 km away. It is speculated that the group wanted to practice camping on a mountain slope.Dyatlov had tol