The 800 lbs Gorilla in the room (no pun intended)
1) The last picture of the dark figure.
2) The journal entry “the snowman lives”
3) The hasty flight from the tent.
4) The picture of the Menk warning on the tree.
5) The report from the locals the Menk was active that year.
6) The blunt force trauma of many of the victims.
7) One victim had her tongue removed. The Menk reportedly loves reindeer tongue.
If it wasn’t a Menk? Was it a Bear? The natives? Gulag escapees?
I think without a doubt the Menk was on their minds. People with hypothermia don’t make journal entries about mystical animals. They stopped and took a picture of the Menk warning sign. It’s quite possible they were just scared of nothing and fled the tent, but we would have found them all dead from exposure. SOMETHING was there, something crushed ribs and exploded organs. A fall? Look at the topography….