Man, I am pretty sure you got the answer pretty much spot on; only every single premise in that argument is flawed.
Sir Devlyn said:
I know very little about radiation poisoning so I don't know if the effects were immediate or incremental. I would guess sudden though, as it seems unlikely that they would all wake in the middle of the night at the same time. I also believe it causes appetite loss, and they ate before bed. Maybe they drank melted water from the mountaintop and the water was irradiated? Ingested radiation can be much more damaging than external.
I'm guessing they were exposed to a sudden burst while asleep. This would, I believe, make them feel like they were burning up and had to get outside to the cold air NOW. This might explain why the tent was torn from within, since they couldn't think straight enough to go fumbling with zippers.
First, radiation poisoning doesn't suddenly make you want to get up and start frolicking in the snow. Quite the opposite, the symptoms of it are things like fatigue, nausea, and weakness. Second, even in fatal doses of radiation, there is a substantial lag phase before symptoms appear.
Sir Devlyn said:
If they were ill, they might have left the camp for two reasons. They might have been trying to return to their cache, but went down the wrong side, or they might have been fleeing something. The article says they left of their own accord but doesn't say if they were walking or running. It also doesn't say if they had any kind of medicine in their cache.
I'm guessing they were all suffering from feeling hot, which is why they didn't mind running around in negative weather in their undies. After a while though the cold might have started to sink in, which is why they started a fire. Running around on a mountain, at night, with the wind blowing snow every which way and your brain possibly cooking can make it seemingly very easy to stumble and hit your head on all kinds of things. I could also see them maybe ripping off their own clothes from being so hot.
Really? This makes a load of sense. Except everything about them feeling hot, which is an essential premise of this theory.
I don't have an explanation for the violence though. Maybe they were exposed to something up top, went downhill, became separated, and the violence group were found by the Mansi? I understand cutting out a woman's tongue is not unheard of amongst more savage rapists. Maybe a military force arrived, exposed the group to radiation, and the group fled, trying to return hours later when the coast was clear. Can radiation cause bones to crack? This might explain the various bone fractures. Or maybe, if the snow / water was irradiated, the woman trying to drink more to cool herself down only added to her pain such that she cut her own tongue out.
Except that the people who died of injury showed no signs of violent struggle, and there were no signs of Mansi in the area surrounding the bodies.
Also, radiation cannot cause bones to crack, and radiation poisoning, unless it was injected directly into her tongue, and confined there, would have spread enough that the only way to get rid of the pain through amputation would be to amputate your brain from your cranium.
The gvt obviously knew about things going on there because they shut the place down so quickly, which means they had to be the ones who initiated whatever factors were in play. Whatever they were doing, the hikers were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and were exposed to radiation (or some other energy) as a result.
Yeah, the government also closes down areas where murder investigations are ongoing.
The government must be the cause of all murders.
Seriously though. Did you think that if 9 people died under mysterious circumstances, they were going to market it as a tourist destination?
Gculk, you can send me your nut. Please pack it in ice before sending (I learned my mistake the last time).
Even if your theories were all logically sensible, you didn't give any answer, you gave some disjointed theories about it. No ****ing way I am amputating my nut for this ****.