Has science solved one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries?

Seems like the current URL is wrong, this works for me instead: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2021/01/has-scien...

The source for this article is a paper published in Nature.[0] Unlike the NG article, the Nature paper and the associated Youtube video[1] by Nature contain graphics of a simulation that illustrates what seems to be the idea behind the paper: the incident may have been caused by an avalanche of minute proportions - even a human-sized lump of hard snow is massive enough to break bones, and it would have melted away before the tent was discovered.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00081-8/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22OmPK7Ml34