Puzrin and Gaume: Dyatlov group did NOT take unnecessary risk
Puzrin and Gaume recognizes the expertise of Dyatlov and the other eight hikers. They say even professional guides and mountaineers can be caught off guard by nature. Gaume says to National Geographic, “People don’t want it to be an avalanche. It’s too normal.” He notes that nobody will ever know completely what happened to the Dyatlov hikers. But the testing offers a reasonable explanation of the “compelling natural force” that drove the hikers out of the tent without proper gear for the freezing night, and toward their death. The researchers attempt to only address the cause of the “compelling natural force” behind the evacuation. They do not look in to the other controversies such as the traces of radioactivity on some of the hiker’s clothes, what happened after the hikers left the tent, the state of their bodies at the site, or autopsy findings.