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Disney's Frozen just helped solve a 62-year old Russian cold case. The Dyatlov Pass incident involved nine Russian hikers who mysteriously died in the northern Ural Mountains, aka "Dead Mountain," in 1959. Over the years, there have been several theories about how the men, who were all experienced hikers, passed away. Animal attacks and an avalanche were the main theories that were tossed around over the years. In 2019, it was proven to be an avalanche that killed the men, though some were still skeptical that an avalanche could have inflicted the varying amounts of trauma that the men suffered.

Soviet authorities were able to determine that six of the men had died from hypothermia while the other three had been killed by different amounts of physical trauma. According to National Geographic, "Many argued that the avalanche theory, initially proposed in 1959, still didn't seem to stack up." For one, the team's tent...

The Dyatlov Pass incident has inspired countless theories over the last 62 years regarding the deaths of nine Russian hikers who set out on a 200-mile trek through Russia’s Ural Mountains in the winter of 1959. According to National Geographic (citing the journal Communications Earth and Environment), engineers recently relied on animation codes that Disney used on its Oscar-winning blockbuster “Frozen” to prove a longstanding theory that an avalanche resulted in the deaths of the nine hikers. While researchers concluded in 2019 that an avalanche killed the hikers, the Dyatlov Pass incident continued to provoke theories.

Per National Geographic: “Many argued that the avalanche theory, initially proposed in 1959, still didn’t seem to stack up: The team’s tent encampment was cut into the snow on a slope with an incline seemingly too mild to permit an avalanche. There was no snowfall on the night of February 1 that could have increased the...