mysterious death of 9 skiers unresolved

 

Nine experienced cross-country skiers hurriedly left their tent on a Urals slope

in the middle of the night, casting aside skis, food and their warm coats.

Clad in their sleepwear, the young people dashed headlong down a snowy slope toward a thick forest, 

where they stood no chance of surviving bitter temperatures of around minus 30 degrees Celsius.

Baffled investigators said the group died as a result of “a compelling unknown force” — 

and then abruptly closed the case and filed it as top secret.