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People taking off their clothes is common with severe hypothermia. Lacerations and blunt trauma is common for avalanche victims. The soft/detachable parts (eyes, tongue) can be still eaten by scavengers while frozen.

So the only unusual part would be the radioactivity, strange lights, and what triggered the avalanche. Which could all be explained by some classified military test.

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The two people in the group with radioactive clothing worked in a nuclear facility.

As another commenter pointed out, the YT channel Lemmino made an excellent video with research based on the primary sources, and the conclusion is, unsurprisingly, not aliens. When all the facts are considered, the whole incident is probably only still considered mysterious because it makes a better story.

The article suggests thorium lanterns for the radioactivity.

The other points are all obvious - nature taking its course. Scavengers (probably mainly birds) will eat the soft parts first.

Ye, just wanted to provide an alternative for the "spooky" parts that people like to bring up =)

Some of them may also have been sleeping nude or nearly so, particularly if their clothes were damp. At least, that's the cold weather camping advice I've received. Maybe they did things differently.

Consumption by animals would leave obvious signs on the bodies. That would be something even an amateur might deduce if the evidence was there.

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