I was there at the site in 2010. It was an amazing trek (<a href="http://roopkund.com/" rel="nofollow">http://roopkund.com/</a>).<p>Right now, the forest officials are struggling to preserve the remains because tourist often like to take the skeletons back with them as souvenirs. Since the lake is far off and frozen for eight months in a year, it is difficult to guard the area. Most skeletons and bones have been stolen over the years with only a few skulls and bones remaining around the frozen lake.
It doesn't make sense to me, why did the bodies only have wounds on the head and shoulders ?<p>It seems intuitive that you protect your head with your hands and arms, as sudden as the hailstorm may have been, and once they collapsed to the ground their whole bodies should have been hit (although I guess their clothes could have protected them a bit) ?
Even though this mystery is as good as solved, this mystery death remains still a mystery<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident</a>
Can one really die from hail? I have seen pretty big ones now and then, but usually one would cover their heads with their hands at least, to make it safely through it.