Hi, my name is Alice and I'm a student at Durham University. An interesting innovation that caught my attention recently is the use of snow animation codes from the Frozen film in 2013 to solve a 62-year-old mystery known as the Dyatlov Pass incident.
This incident involved nine Russian researchers who went missing and were later found dead under strange circumstances with unusual injuries. For over six decades, it remained a mystery until a researcher from the Swiss Institute watched Frozen and realized the realistic snow animations in the movie.
Curious about the potential connection, the Swiss researcher requested to borrow the snow animation codes and recreated the Dyatlov Pass incident using GM cadaver research. Through this recreation, they were able to prove that avalanches can cause blunt trauma injuries through compression.
This finding has since been used to inform medical responses and develop protective outerwear and equipment to prevent such injuries caused by avalanches.
