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Montego bay, jamaica.

March 9-13, 2025

Bahamas Cruise, Miami

April 4-7, 2025

Lisbon, Portugal

May 12-16, 2025 (Depart US on May 11, 2025)

Marrakech, Morocco

May 18-23, 2025 (Depart US on May 17)

Lake Tahoe, California

June 8-11, 2025

Vienna, Austria

June 22-27, 2025 (Depart US on June 21)

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The 2024 Windows To The World program is open only to Hunter Douglas Alliance Dealers who have an existing account in good standing.

Each trip is for two people.

Once a dealer has been registered for a trip, the ability to change to a different destination whether higher or lower in level—is at the discretion of Hunter Douglas, based on availability, space commitments, and/or rebooking penalties. Dealers will be confirmed for trips based on available space and a “first qualified, first-confirmed” basis.

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The 2024 Windows To The World program qualification period is January 1, 2024, through November 30, 2024.

Individual qualification targets for a dealer’s registered trip are provided in The Link.

All awards earned are considered by the IRS to be taxable income. Any and all Federal, state, and local taxes are the responsibility of each dealer.

IRS Form 1099-MISC (US) or T4A (CA) will be issued to all dealers that earn a trip.

The forms will be issued for the fair market value of the trip as determined by Hunter Douglas’ reasonable discretion.

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Hunter Douglas PowerView shades review: The most luxe experience a HomeKit user could ask for

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We've continued to grow our smart home, both as Apple has added new categories to HomeKit as well as more and more products become available. After buying a new home, we installed our first set of custom HomeKit-enabled shades. We're back at it again, just weeks later, for a new set to outfit our production studio.

In this case, we went with Hunter Douglas. Hunter Douglas has an excellent reputation, so we expected great things out of the company's connected offering, PowerView.

Hunter Douglas has a mind-boggling selection of options to choose from when designing your shades. When perusing the PowerView site , we noted 22 different window treatment styles to choose from. Each window treatment has options on its own, including various shapes, fabrics, colors, and opacities.

Other than just fabrics, there are wood options as well. Your shades can be as personalized to you as you can imagine.

The fabric we chose was a light grey heathered fabric of the Duette & Applause honeycomb shades. They are semi-light blocking, so they don't fully blackout the room but filter the light and provide privacy at the same time.

We also opted for the Duette shade top-down, bottom-up variety. This allows the top of the shades to drop and the bottom to rise, allowing for more discrete control of light in our home.

We installed the shades in our studio, which sits at the bottom of a hill. By having the top move down, we can get some privacy with the bottom of the window covered but still see up the hill to our deck.

Our installation is mounted inside our recessed window frame, but different options are available based on the window type you have. Our window is in a foot-deep recessed portion of the wall, so by mounting them close to the window, we still have the window sill for putting decorations, plants, or, more often than not — our cat.

Overall, it sounds like a little bit of a funky layout. However, in practice, having the Roman shades helps with privacy and view and adjusting to the changing light conditions as the day wears on.

Hunter Douglas PowerView shades — Installation

For our installation, Hunter Douglas handled everything for us. They advertise a white glove service where aside from you putting in the order, they come and measure to ensure the exact fit, have your shades custom made for you, then return to install them as well as set up all the connectivity features.

Our tech was prompt, professional, and did an outstanding job throughout the process. Some people want a DIY approach, and others want to sit back and have the assurance that everything is being taken care of and appropriately installed. Hunter Douglas offers both — but recommends the latter.

It is one thing to order standard shades independently, but smart shades are much more expensive. Should you measure wrong or make a mistake during the installation, you'll be out a good chunk of dough.

The installation didn't take long once the shades were ordered. The tech mounted some brackets, added the shades, connected the bridge, set them up in the Hunter Douglas app, and programmed the remotes.

Finally, he helped us add them to HomeKit.

Hunter Douglas PowerView shades — Control with HomeKit and the app

In our setup, we have three ways of controlling the Hunter Douglas shades. We can use the Hunter Douglas app, we can use HomeKit, or we can use the physical pebble controllers that we added on.

Pebbles are what Hunter Douglas calls their physical remotes. With oval-like shapes and a smooth matte exterior, the pebble name seems to fit. Our Pebbles are clear and black though many other colors are available to help fit your home's aesthetic. This shows how much Hunter Douglas pays attention to detail. Not only do they create shades that blend into your home, but they also do the same for the remote controls.

These remotes look a little "techy," but the lack of sharp edges and warm feel in hand is more grounded than many smart home products.

One remote is a standard control. It can be programmed to control many different window shades, and you can select a specific shade or just press "all."

Each of the six numbers on the remote can represent one shade or a group of shades. You can then control them by having them open or close to any degree you'd like.

Whenever you pick up the remote, the buttons automatically illuminate, making it easy to see at night. This is ideal if you're setting up the PowerView shades in a bedroom.

The other controller is a scene controller. You can save your favorite scenes to this controller and view them on the tiny integrated display. Just select the scene you want — maybe a movie scene — and press "select." There is a favorite button to quickly invoke a specific scene.

We've always said how critical physical controls are, and window shades are no different. You may not always want to grab your phone or yell at Siri to control the shades. You also may have kids, guests, or older family members that aren't tech-savvy and require physical means to control things around your house.

Unless it is truly just you in the home, it is irresponsible not to have physical controls for devices in your home.

Powerview app

The manufacturer's Powerview app and can be used for more granular control, configuring your remotes, setting up alternative voice assistants like Alexa or Google, and more.

But, we've had the shades for a few months, and once we did our initial configuration, we haven't had to use this app at all. When at all possible, we use HomeKit.

What we do like about this app is the visual representation of the shade. HomeKit's representation of an open or closed window shade can be obtuse. This is not the case in the Powerview app, because it clearly shows a visual representation of your shades at that very moment.

And, in the app, you can drag both the top bar and the bottom bar anywhere you'd like. So, you can see in the app which part of the window is covered and which is letting the daylight come through.

HomeKit control

While we prefer HomeKit, we can confirm that these shades work with other smart home systems, including Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and IFTTT.

About that HomeKit confusion — our Roman shades have two moving bars. There is the bottom rail and what Hunter Douglas called the "middle rail," with the fixed mounting bar presumably being the "top" rail.

In HomeKit, by default, it shows our Studio Shade as well as Studio Shade Middle Rail. The bottom rail, just Studio Shade, operates as expected. You tell or command it to open it 20 percent, and it will rise from the bottom sill by 20 percent of your overall window height.

Likewise, you tell it to open, and it will zoom to the top. Say "close," and it will promptly move back to just above the bottom sill.

Where things get tricky is the middle rail.

Since the middle rail opens from the top and moves down, the controls in HomeKit are essentially reversed. For example, if you open the top rail 60 percent, it will move from the top, towards the bottom, opening the top 60 percent of your window. But, in the Home app, it shows the top 40 percent closed and the bottom 40 percent open — the opposite of reality.

To help you visualize this, here are the shades set at various stages and how it shows in both the PowerView app and the Home app.

You have to do some math when operating these in HomeKit. You can't open the bottom bar 40 percent and the top bar 70 percent. They would run into one another.

We tested this exact scenario. If you have the middle bar down and try to open the bottom bar in HomeKit, it will just move the other bar into the air. If you try to move the middle bar down past the bottom bar, it will stop you. While confusing, there is no possible way to damage your shades by running the bars into one another.

It can also be confusing when trying to open or close your windows. If we were to say "Open the studio shades," Siri would try to open both the top and middle bars and leave you with them meeting each other in the middle. This is probably not what you were shooting for.

There are ways to get around these headaches.

One thing you can do is use proper names. Name your lower bar something like "patio window" or another descriptive term. And name the middle bar "patio window middle bar." Then when you go to control them with your voice, you can say "Open the patio window shade 60 percent." That way, it ignores the other bar. But if you do want to lower it, you can address it appropriately.

You can also rely on scenes based on the time of day or around their function. Then you can invoke the scenes rather than needing to adjust the shades manually.

We have several scenes set up, such as opening the shades just before sunrise and closing them just as the sun sets.

To be extra clear, the "issues" here are only due to the middle bar, and if you don't opt for the top/down variety, they will be a non-issue. Even though HomeKit does flip the shade around, we still think these shades are the best choice for our installation.

Of course, like always, your mileage will vary.

Hunter Douglas PowerView shades — Connectivity, reliability, and use

In our home, we have smart shades in a few rooms. Our living room window is outfitted with a set of Lutron Serena Shades, and then we also have a basic set of automated shades in our bedroom.

For starters, there is the convenience factor. Each day we bustle around, readying for the day, and head to the studio with at least an iPad Pro, iPhone, and coffee in hand, if not some new products we're reviewing or some early AM chow. It's a lot to carry as you walk into a dark room.

So, we have a handy couple of scenes set up. "Hey Siri, it's a workday" comes out of our mouths as we walk in the door — which will automatically turn on the office lights, the set lights, open the shades, and start our morning playlist on our HomePod .

Every time, without fail, the shades will quickly, after only a second or two delay, begin to act. We've only had the shades go unresponsive when using the Home app and try to adjust both bars quickly.

If we adjust the middle rail and then quickly — while the shades are still moving — try to move the bottom rail, it will say unresponsive for just a moment. Otherwise, they've been rock-solid, and reliable.

That is all due to the PowerView hub that bridges your shades onto your Wi-Fi network. Our PowerView hub is in the same room as the shades, so we may have a best-case scenario here.

Hunter Douglas offers a repeater to extend the hubs control throughout your home if you're having a range problem. This will be necessary for larger homes with a lot of windows.

Our set runs off of a rechargeable battery though there are hardwired options available. With the swappable battery — which should last about a year with regular use — there are no wires to worry about around your window.

The battery pack stays completely hidden and connected to the mounting bracket. When the shades are all the way open, they neatly hide behind the collapsed honeycomb shades. It is easy to press the button and remove the battery once the battery does start to die.

Charging the batteries is accomplished via a charging dock that plugs into your wall. We just tucked this behind our couch, so it wasn't an eyesore but was easily accessible.

The dock has two charging bays, so a pair of batteries can be refueled at once. However, if you have one window — this is overkill. If you have many windows, two slots will be helpful to make sure your shades will be up and working quickly.

Hunter Douglas versus Lutron Serena Shades

The other big name in HomeKit-enabled shades is going to be Lutron's Serena line . We've used both, and there are a few distinct differences between the two.

Our biggest differentiator is going to be the styles of shades available from each. Serena Shades offers a large variety of materials, opacities, and colors. There are multiple fascia and mounting options too.

Hunter Douglas has many options, but it has one unique style that Serena Shades doesn't offer. That is the top-down/bottom-up style we've come to love so much.

Another difference is installation. Hunter Douglas offers no retail or direct purchase option but requires you to go through a referred partner or installer. Serena Shades can be purchased directly through the company's website.

Should you buy the Hunter Douglas smart shades?

Investing in the Hunter Douglas shades isn't a cheap or quick endeavor. Of course, you can pursue installation yourself, but they still aren't cheap — especially if covering multiple windows.

We're huge believers in natural light, and to get that, we opened and closed our shades on our own each day. By adding automation to our shades, they open and close for us, allowing natural light to flood our home.

Aside from convenience, there is also the security factor. These shades can be automated or controlled from anywhere, allowing you to give the illusion you're home safe and sound and leaving would-be intruders to think twice. And, combining this with smart lighting, will provide a more convincing illusion.

Lights are useful, as are fans, locks, and so many other HomeKit categories. Shades we believe are just as helpful — but carry a much higher price tag. Outfitting your whole home can be pricey for sure, but certain rooms make more sense than others.

If we had it our way, we'd outfit every room with custom smart shades. But being realistic, we're limiting the expensive option to the primary rooms. Our production studio, bedroom, guest bedroom, and living room all get HomeKit control while ancillary rooms are stuck with off-the-shelf self-cut options. It certainly was an investment and an adjustment given HomeKit's handling, but we don't regret it one single bit after living with them for a while.

• Vast array of styles and fabrics
• Top/down bottom/up allows full control of privacy and light
• Great battery life and easy replacement
• Look fantastic
• White-glove installation is entirely hands-off
• Great integration with HomeKit
• Pebble controls are a great physical control
• Can be quite pricey
• Homekit integration can be a little confusing for top/down bottom/up shades

Rating: 4.5 out of 5

Where to buy.

You can learn more about the Hunter Douglas PowerView lineup from the Hunter Douglas website where you can also request a consultation with a specialist in your area.

24 Comments

Who want to pay all that money and then have to run around and charge batteries all the time. I am sorry this solution does not pass the wife test, If i installed this and the first time she could not open or close a blind because the batteries need charged they would be torn out.

maestro64 said: Who want to pay all that money and then have to run around and charge batteries all the time. I am sorry this solution does not pass the wife test, If i installed this and the first time she could not open or close a blind because the batteries need charged they would be torn out. Well, maybe it's the wife that needs to get swapped out...  ;-) Kidding!

Surprised the article didn’t compare/contract with the IKEA HomeKit enabled window blinds, as they must have the largest market share by volume at the moment.

All that talk and no mention of price and/or the number one HomeKit enabled shades (IKEA). I’ve got 10 of the ikea shades. Installed 5 in January and another 5 a few months later. At $150 each, there’s no competitor insight that can match them. Absolutely love the set. We don’t open them very frequently so we only lost 5% of battery in a couple months. At this rate they’ll last two years before I have to go around and start charging them.

Maestro, if your wife cannot handle once a year battery charging then you sure chose a needy and demanding wife. Next marriage, choose better. 

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Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved?

By Douglas Preston

Igor Dyatlov was a tinkerer, an inventor, and a devotee of the wilderness. Born in 1936, near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), he built radios as a kid and loved camping. When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, in 1957, he constructed a telescope so that he and his friends could watch the satellite travel across the night sky. By then, he was an engineering student at the city’s Ural Polytechnic Institute. One of the leading technical universities in the country, U.P.I. turned out topflight engineers to work in the nuclear-power and weapons industries, communications, and military engineering. During his years there, Dyatlov led a number of arduous wilderness trips, often using outdoor equipment that he had invented or improved on. It was a time of optimism in the U.S.S.R. Khrushchev’s Thaw had freed many political prisoners from Stalin’s Gulag, economic growth was robust, and the standard of living was rising. The shock that the success of Sputnik delivered to the West further bolstered national confidence. In late 1958, Dyatlov began planning a winter expedition that would exemplify the boldness and vigor of a new Soviet generation: an ambitious sixteen-day cross-country ski trip in the Urals, the north-south mountain range that divides western Russia from Siberia, and thus Europe from Asia.

He submitted his proposal to the U.P.I. sports club, which readily approved it. Dyatlov’s itinerary lay three hundred and fifty miles north of Sverdlovsk, in the traditional territory of the Mansi, an indigenous people. The Mansi came into contact with Russians around the sixteenth century, when Russia was extending its control over Siberia. Though largely Russified by this time, the Mansi continued to pursue a semi-traditional way of life—hunting, fishing, and reindeer herding. Dyatlov’s group would ski two hundred miles, on a route that no Russian, as far as anyone knew, had taken before. The mountains were gentle and rounded, their barren slopes rising from a vast boreal forest of birch and fir. The challenge wouldn’t be rugged terrain but brutally cold temperatures, deep snow, and high winds.

Dyatlov recruited his classmate Zina Kolmogorova, and seven other fellow-students and recent graduates. They were among the élite of Soviet youth and all highly experienced winter campers and cross-country skiers. One was Dyatlov’s close friend Georgy Krivonishchenko, who had graduated from U.P.I. two years before and worked as an engineer at the Mayak nuclear complex, in the then secret town of Chelyabinsk-40. Jug-eared, small, and wiry, he told jokes, sang, and played the mandolin. Two other recent graduates were Rustem Slobodin and Nikolay Thibault-Brignoles, of French descent, whose father had been worked nearly to death in one of Stalin’s camps. The other students included Yuri Yudin, Yuri Doroshenko, and Aleksandr Kolevatov. The youngest of the group, at twenty, was Lyuda Dubinina, an economics major, a track athlete, and an ardent Communist, who wore her long blond hair in braids tied with silk ribbons. On a previous wilderness outing, Dubinina had been accidentally shot by a hunter, and survived—quite cheerfully, it was said—a fifty-mile journey back to civilization. A couple of days before the group was due to set off, the U.P.I. administration unexpectedly added a new member, much older than the others and largely unknown to them: Semyon Zolotaryov, a thirty-seven-year-old veteran of the Second World War with an old-fashioned mustache, stainless-steel crowns on his teeth, and tattoos.

The party left Sverdlovsk by train on January 23rd. Several of them hid under seats to avoid buying tickets. They were in high spirits—so high that on a layover between trains Krivonishchenko was briefly detained by police for playing his mandolin and pretending to panhandle in the train station. We know these details because there was a communal journal, and many of the skiers also kept personal journals. At least five had cameras, and the pictures they took show a lively and strikingly handsome group of young people having the adventure of their lives—skiing, laughing, playing in the snow, and mugging for the camera.

After two days on trains, the party reached Ivdel, a remote town with a Stalin-era prison camp that, by then, held mostly criminals. From there the group travelled another day by bus, then in the back of a woodcutter’s truck, and finally by ski, guided by a horse-drawn sleigh. They slept in an abandoned logging camp called Second Northern. There Yuri Yudin had a flareup of sciatica that forced him to pull out of the trip. The next day, January 28th, he turned back, while the remaining nine set off toward the mountains. The plan was to end up at the tiny village of Vizhai around February 12th, and telegram the U.P.I. sports club that they had arrived safely. The expected telegram never came.

At first, the U.P.I. sports club assumed that the group had just been held up; there had been reports of a heavy snowstorm in the mountains. But, after several days passed, families of the group began placing frantic phone calls to the university and to the local bureau of the Communist Party, and, on February 20th, a search was launched. There were several search parties: student volunteers from U.P.I., prison guards from the Ivdel camp, Mansi hunters, local police; the military deployed planes and helicopters. On February 25th, the students found ski tracks, and the next day they discovered the skiers’ tent—above the tree line on a remote mountain that Soviet officials referred to as Height 1079 and that the Mansi called Kholat Syakhl, or Dead Mountain. There was no one inside.

The tent was partly collapsed and largely buried in snow. After digging it out, the search party saw that the tent appeared to have been deliberately slashed in several places. Yet, inside, everything was neat and orderly. The skiers’ boots, axes, and other equipment were arranged on either side of the door. Food was laid out as if about to be eaten; there was a stack of wood for a heating stove, and clothes, cameras, and journals.

About a hundred feet downhill, the search party found “very distinct” footprints of eight or nine people, walking (not running) toward the tree line. Almost all the prints were of stockinged feet, some even bare. One person appeared to be wearing a single ski boot. “Some of the prints indicated that the person was either barefoot or in socks because you could see the toes,” a searcher later testified. The party followed the prints downhill for six to seven hundred yards, until they vanished near the tree line.

The next morning, searchers found the bodies of the mandolin player Krivonishchenko and the student Doroshenko under a tall cedar tree at the edge of the forest. They were lying next to a dead fire, wearing only underwear. Twelve to fifteen feet up the tree were some recently broken branches, and on the trunk bits of skin and torn clothes were found. Later that day, a search party discovered the bodies of Dyatlov and Kolmogorova. Both were farther up the slope, facing in the direction of the tent, their fists tightly clenched. They seemed to have been trying to get back there.

The four bodies were autopsied, while the search for the others continued. The medical examiner noted a number of bizarre features. Krivonishchenko had blackened fingers and third-degree burns on a shin and a foot. Inside his mouth was a chunk of flesh that he had bitten off his right hand. Doroshenko’s body had burned hair on one side of the head and a charred sock. All the bodies were covered with bruises, abrasions, scratches, and cuts, as was a fifth body, that of the recent graduate Slobodin, which was discovered a few days later. Like Dyatlov and Kolmogorova, Slobodin was on the slope leading back to the tent, with a sock on one foot and a felt bootie on the other; his autopsy noted a minor fracture to his skull.

By now, a homicide investigation was under way, led by a prosecutor in his mid-thirties named Lev Ivanov. Toxicology tests were done, witness testimony taken, diagrams and maps made of the scene, and evidence gathered and forensically analyzed. The tent and its contents were helicoptered out of the mountains and set up again inside a police station. This led to a key discovery: a seamstress who came to the station to do a uniform fitting happened to notice that the slashes in the tent had been made from the inside.

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Something had happened that induced the skiers to cut their way out of the tent and flee into the night, into a howling blizzard, in twenty-below-zero temperatures, in bare feet or socks. They were not novices to the winter mountains; they would have been acutely aware of the fatal consequences of leaving the tent half dressed in those conditions. This is the central, and apparently inexplicable, mystery of the incident.

Four bodies remained missing. In early May, when the snow began to melt, a Mansi hunter and his dog came across the remains of a makeshift snow den in the woods two hundred and fifty feet from the cedar tree: a floor of branches laid in a deep hole in the snow. Pieces of tattered clothing were found strewn about: black cotton sweatpants with the right leg cut off, the left half of a woman’s sweater. Another search team arrived and, using avalanche probes around the den, they brought up a piece of flesh. Excavation uncovered the four remaining victims, lying together in a rocky streambed under at least ten feet of snow. The autopsies revealed catastrophic injuries to three of them. Thibault-Brignoles’s skull was fractured so severely that pieces of bone had been driven into the brain. Zolotaryov and Dubinina had crushed chests with multiple broken ribs, and the autopsy report noted a massive hemorrhage in the right ventricle of Dubinina’s heart. The medical examiner said the damage was similar to what is typically seen as the “result of an impact of an automobile moving at high speed.” Yet none of the bodies had external penetrating wounds, though Zolotaryov’s was missing its eyes, and Dubinina’s was missing its eyes, tongue, and part of the upper lip.

A careful inventory of clothing recovered from the bodies revealed that some of these victims were wearing clothes taken or cut off the bodies of others, and a laboratory found that several items emitted unnaturally high levels of radiation. A radiological expert testified that, because the bodies had been exposed to running water for months, these levels of radiation must originally have been “many times greater.”

On May 28th, Ivanov abruptly closed the investigation. His role was to determine whether a crime had been committed, not to clarify what had happened, and he concluded that homicide was not a factor. Ivanov ended his report with a non-explanation that has bedevilled Dyatlov researchers ever since: “It should be concluded that the cause of the hikers’ demise was an overwhelming force, which they were not able to overcome.”

In classic Soviet style, a number of officials who had little to do with the tragedy were either punished or fired, including the director of U.P.I. and the chairman of its sports club, the local Communist Party secretary, the chairmen of two workers’ unions, and a union inspector. The investigative files, photographs, and journals were classified and the area around Dead Mountain was placed off limits to skiers and outdoor enthusiasts for years. The tent was stored but eventually became moldy and had to be thrown out. The saddle in the mountains which the skiers were heading for but never reached was named the Dyatlov Pass.

The victims’ families were left deeply dissatisfied. Many of them wrote to officials, including Khrushchev, demanding a more thorough investigation. But nothing more was done, and the mysterious deaths of the nine skiers subsided into relative obscurity.

In 1990, the prosecutor Ivanov, who had retired, published an article in which he claimed that, while compiling his 1959 report, he’d been pressured not to include his views on what happened. The article, titled “The Enigma of the Fireballs,” said that the skiers had been killed by heat rays or balls of fire associated with U.F.O.s. In his original examination of the scene, Ivanov had found trees with unusual burn marks, which “confirmed that some kind of heat ray, say, or a powerful force whose nature is completely unknown (to us, at least) acted selectively on specific objects”—in this case, people. The last photograph in Krivonishchenko’s camera showed flares and streaks of light against a black background.

By then, the official files had been released and, in the decades since, the case has become one of the most celebrated mysteries of the Soviet era. It has generated dozens of books and documentaries, along with a slew of Web sites and message boards on which Dyatlov obsessives trade scores of theories—the official count of the Russian Prosecutor General’s office lists seventy-five—about what happened. In 2000, relatives and friends of the victims established the Dyatlov Group Memorial Foundation, whose purpose is to honor the memory of the skiers and seek the truth. Its president is Yuri Kuntsevich, who, as a twelve-year-old boy, attended the funerals of some of the victims. He went on to study and teach at U.P.I. (which has since become the Ural State Technical University) and to join its sports club. Now in his mid-seventies, he still leads tours to the Dyatlov Pass. Kuntsevich told me that Russians generally favor one of two theories: the skiers died because they had stumbled into an area where secret weapons were being tested; alternatively, the party was “killed by mercenaries,” probably American spies.

Kuntsevich insists that the first of these theories is the correct one, and it’s also what the families tend to believe. The idea is that a missile launch of some kind went disastrously wrong, inflicting severe injuries on some of the skiers and forcing the group to flee their tent, at which point they either froze to death or were killed by military observers. Yuri Yudin, whose sciatica compelled him to abandon the trip, likewise maintained that the deaths were not natural. Not long before he died, in 2013, he declared that his teammates had been taken from the tent at gunpoint and murdered. Dubinina, he said, may have had her tongue cut out by the killers because she was the most outspoken of the group.

Proponents of the weapons-test theory cite claims from people in the region that they had seen flashes of light or moving balls of fire in the direction of the mountains. In 2008, a three-foot-long piece of metal was found in the area; according to the Dyatlov Foundation, which took possession of it, the metal is part of a Soviet ballistic missile. Military tests would explain the radioactivity of recovered clothing. Yevgeny Okishev, Ivanov’s supervisor in the Prosecutor General’s office, gave an interview to a newspaper in 2013, in which he recalled finding it suspicious when he and his colleagues were instructed to test recovered items for radiation. He sent a letter to his superiors asking why radiation was relevant. In response, the Deputy Prosecutor General met with the team. Okishev said that the official dodged questions about weapons testing and ordered them to tell people that the deaths were accidental. “The victims’ parents came to my office, some screamed and called us Fascists for hiding the truth from them,” Okishev recalled. “But the case was closed, and not on our orders.”

The theory, however, is not consistent with what was found at the site. There was no evidence that other people had been there. Snow does not lie: it would have been close to impossible to erase signs of the people and equipment involved in killing the group and restaging the scene. Besides, why make the staging so elaborate and bizarre? Why scatter the bodies around the landscape, cut off the clothing of some and dress others in it, build a snow den, bury four bodies in ten feet of snow, light a fire, and climb a tree to break branches, leaving skin on the bark? The theory would also suggest that there was a secret weapons base in the area, or that an errant missile had exploded over it. Yet, despite the mass declassification of documents from the Soviet era and the diligent searches of Dyatlov enthusiasts, no such evidence has emerged.

The K.G.B. theory centers on Zolotaryov, the man who was foisted on the group at the last minute. A book published in Russia claims that he and two other skiers were K.G.B. agents on an assignment to meet with a group of C.I.A. operatives, to furnish them with deliberately misleading information. Samples of clothing contaminated by radioactive isotopes were to be offered as bait; the C.I.A. agents discovered the deception, killed them, and staged the scene. It is certainly possible that Zolotaryov had a K.G.B. link. His service record in the Second World War had holes and inconsistencies, and his sudden inclusion certainly seems suspicious. Still, a K.G.B. connection, even if proved, wouldn’t mean much; many people were low-level informants at the time. And the idea that the C.I.A. would have chosen a place like Dead Mountain for a rendezvous strains credulity.

Another class of theories considers a variety of natural disasters. An avalanche, perhaps, struck the tent, causing the crushing injuries to three of the victims and forcing the whole group to cut their way out and head to the forest for shelter. But no avalanche debris was found—a ski pole holding up the front of the tent was still standing—and the original investigation determined that the slope was too shallow to generate an avalanche. Besides, the injuries to the three victims found in the streambed were totally incapacitating. They could never have made it there unassisted—it was more than a mile from the tent—but the tracks leading downhill showed no signs of anyone being dragged. There were eight or nine separate sets of footprints, so the fatal injuries must have come after everyone had left the tent. A 2013 best-seller by the filmmaker and writer Donnie Eichar suggests that high winds passing over the mountain created infrasound‚ vibrations below the range of human hearing, and that this induced such terror that the skiers fled. Much about the book is excellent—Eichar conducted many interviews in Russia and travelled to the Dyatlov Pass in winter—but his thesis would require all nine people to have been so terrified of a sound they couldn’t even hear that they ran to certain death, not grabbing their coats or boots, and slashing their way out, when the tent door would have made for a far easier exit.

Various hypotheses considered in the 1959 inquest have also been raked over: carbon-monoxide poisoning from the heater; sudden madness caused by consuming bad alcohol or hallucinogenic mushrooms that the Mansi sometimes hung on trees to dry; or even murder by the Mansi themselves, if, for instance, the party had strayed onto sacred land. But the autopsies ruled out the first two of these, and when the original investigators interviewed the local Mansi they found them “well disposed toward Russians,” and believable. The Mansi had provided valuable help in the search, and they told the investigators that the area was not sacred; on the contrary, it was considered windy, barren, and worthless.

By far the most entertaining theory is that the party was attacked by a yeti. The final photograph found in Thibault-Brignoles’s camera has become famous: a dark figure advancing through the snowy forest, hunched and menacing, with no facial features. The Discovery Channel built an entire show, “Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives,” around the image. The skiers actually had been joking about yetis a few hours before they died. A spoof propaganda leaflet was found in the tent. Alongside such items as “Greeting the XXI Congress with increased birthrate among hikers” was the following: “Science: In recent years there has been a heated debate about the existence of the Yeti. Latest evidence indicates that the Yeti lives in the northern Urals, near Mount Otorten.” Still, the photograph, though blurry, pretty clearly shows a member of the group. Similarly, the Krivonishchenko image of streaks of light, which has been used to bolster the U.F.O. and weapons-test theories, is typical of the end of a film roll.

All the Dyatlov theories share a basic assumption that the full story has not been told. In a place where information has been as tightly controlled as in the former Soviet Union, mistrust of official narratives is natural, and nothing in the record can explain why people would leave a tent undressed, in near-suicidal fashion. For decades, the families and the Dyatlov Group Memorial Foundation pressed for a new investigation; two years ago, elderly relatives of several victims finally succeeded in getting the case reopened.

A young prosecutor in Yekaterinburg, Andrei Kuryakov, was put in charge. In 2019, he organized a winter expedition to the site. His team took measurements, surveyed, photographed, and conducted a variety of experiments. Using photogrammetry of the pictures taken in 1959, they tried to establish the precise location of the tent. The spot they settled on was several hundred feet from a cairn marking the previously accepted location, on a steeper section of Kholat Syakhl’s slope. Combing through historical data, the investigators determined that weather conditions on the mountain that night were even more extreme than had been thought. The skiers were engulfed in a storm with winds of up to sixty-five miles an hour and temperatures around minus thirty degrees Fahrenheit. As evening fell, they were probably unsure of their precise location.

From the outset, Kuryakov adopted an intentionally narrow scope, dismissing seventy-two of the seventy-five explanations for what may have happened. “A large class of these seventy-five versions are conspiracy theories alleging that the authorities were somehow involved in the incident,” he said, when announcing the investigation. “We have already proved that this is absolutely false.” This left the investigation with three natural occurrences to consider: an avalanche, a hurricane, and a slab of snow sliding over the tent. Last July, Kuryakov held a televised press conference in which he told his audience that the last of these was the definitive explanation.

Two photographs taken by the Dyatlov party at around 5 P.M. , while they pitched the tent, show that they cut deeply into the snowpack at right angles to the slope, forming a hollow. They had picked a spot where the mountain peak offered some shelter from the strongest winds. Later in the evening, Kuryakov said, a snow slab detached from the slope above and buried most of the tent, pinning down the occupants and possibly causing injuries. Fearing that a full-scale avalanche was imminent, the skiers cut their way out of the downslope side of the tent and fled to a rock ridge a hundred and fifty feet away, which Kuryakov termed a “natural avalanche limiter.” But the big avalanche didn’t come, and, in pitch darkness, they were unable to find their way back to the tent and took shelter in the woods, a mile away. Kuryakov tested this theory by blindfolding a man and a woman and leading them ninety feet downhill from a tent. Asked to find their way back, they quickly went astray. The task would have been even more difficult in a blizzard, with most of the tent buried in snow.

Analyzing 1959 photographs, many Dyatlov researchers had calculated that the tent was pitched on a slope of some fifteen degrees, which is not steep enough to sustain the movement of snow in cold conditions. The new position of the tent as determined by Kuryakov’s topographical experts was therefore crucial, because the gradient here was between twenty-three and twenty-six degrees, enough for avalanche formation. A paper corroborating much of Kuryakov’s explanation was published in January by two Swiss engineers in the journal Communications Earth & Environment . Creating a mathematical model of the snow structure that night, the researchers showed why the slab didn’t release immediately when the group cut into it, but only hours later: additional loading of snow during the storm was responsible.

I reviewed the hypothesis with Ethan Greene, the director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, who has a Ph.D. in the physics of heat and mass transfer in snow. He suggested that the party’s decision to pitch the tent in the wind shadow of the peak made it likely that they were cutting into a so-called wind slab—an accumulation of hard snow even more dangerous than a typical snow slab. Compacted by the wind, this kind of snow is several times denser than directly deposited snow and, according to Greene, can weigh as much as six hundred and seventy pounds per cubic yard. Furthermore, the clear conditions preceding the storm could have led to the formation of a layer of light, feathery frost, known as surface hoar. When buried in fresh snow during the storm, this layer forms a hazardous stratum that provides poor support to the snow above and often releases, resulting in avalanches. By removing the support on the lower edge of the slab while digging to set their tent, the skiers likely caused it to fracture higher up.

If the wind slab had simply slid over the tent and halted, without developing into a full-fledged avalanche, the evidence, Greene said, might not be visible twenty-five days later. Even the fissure in the snowpack would probably have been erased by the elements. If a three-foot-thick slab moved over the tent, each skier’s body would have been covered by more than a thousand pounds. The massive weight prevented them from retrieving their boots or warm clothing and forced them to cut their way out of the downslope side of the tent.

The two Swiss researchers believe that the snow slab probably caused the terrible injuries to three of the skiers found at the snow den, but this remains unlikely, given the distance of those bodies from the tent. Kuryakov’s explanation was more ingenious. The nine skiers retreated downhill, taking shelter under the cedar tree and building a fire. Because the young trees nearby were icy and wet, someone climbed the cedar to break branches higher up—hence the skin and scraps of clothing found on the trunk. The fire they built, in these extreme conditions, was not enough to save them, however. The two most poorly dressed of the group died first. The burned skin on their bodies came from their desperate efforts to seek warmth from the fire. This would suggest that the piece of flesh Krivonishchenko bit from his finger was probably a result of the delirium that overtakes someone who’s dying of hypothermia, or perhaps from an attempt to test for sensation in a frostbitten hand.

The surviving skiers cut the clothes off their dead comrades and dressed themselves in the remnants. At some point, the group split up. Three skiers, including Dyatlov, tried to return to the tent and soon froze to death as they struggled uphill. The other four, who were better dressed, decided to build a snow den to shelter in overnight. They needed deep snow, which they found in a ravine a couple of hundred feet away. Unfortunately, the spot they picked lay above a stream, a tributary of the Lozva River. The stream, which never freezes, had hollowed out a deep icy tunnel, and the group’s digging caused its roof to collapse, throwing them onto the rocky streambed and burying them in ten to fifteen feet of snow. The pressure of tons of snow forcing them against the rocks caused the traumatic injuries found in this group. The gruesome facial damage—the missing tongue, eyes, and lip—probably resulted from scavenging by small animals and from decomposition.

Kuryakov’s reconstruction of events made a single plausible narrative out of previously mystifying anomalies. But what of the radiation? This detail, the most enigmatic of all, might be the easiest to explain. For one thing, the mantles used in camp lanterns at the time contained small amounts of the radioactive element thorium. Even more pertinent, the expedition took place less than two years after the world’s third-worst nuclear accident (after Chernobyl and Fukushima), which occurred at the Mayak nuclear complex, south of Sverdlovsk, in September of 1957. A tank of radioactive waste exploded and a radioactive plume some two hundred miles long—later named the East Urals Radioactive Trace—spread northward. Krivonishchenko had worked at the facility and helped with the cleanup, and another skier came from a village in the contaminated zone.

Kuryakov closed his press conference by declaring, “Formally, this is it. The case is closed.” Given how freighted the case is in Russia, this was too optimistic. For many people, nature alone cannot explain a tragedy of this magnitude; perpetrators must be identified and the state and its dark past invoked. Sure enough, the conclusions were greeted with scorn, especially by the families of the dead. The Dyatlov Group Memorial Foundation sent a letter to the Prosecutor General declaring that, in its view, the skiers’ deaths were caused by “the atmospheric release of a powerful toxic substance” when a secret weapons test went wrong. Natalia Varsegova, a Moscow journalist, who has covered the subject for many years, also rejected Kuryakov’s conclusions. “Two years ago I thought that the prosecutor Andrei Kuryakov really wanted to know the truth,” she wrote to me in an e-mail. “But now I doubt it. I don’t believe in an avalanche.” After the Swiss report came out, she published an article rejecting it as well. “These theoreticians’ conclusions are supported by mathematical calculations, formulas, and diagrams, but the local Mansi, numerous tourists, and organizers of snowmobile tours, who have never seen avalanches on this slope, are unlikely to agree with them.”

A month after the press conference, Kuryakov was reprimanded for holding it without authorization, and in October he was removed from his post. (The prosecutor’s office has claimed that he resigned, and he did not respond to requests for an interview.) Early this year, he was appointed a deputy minister of natural resources in the Sverdlovsk region, which is a major timber producer. As Kuntsevich wrote to me sarcastically, Kuryakov was shunted off to “felling trees.” Meanwhile, the Prosecutor General declined to be interviewed for this article, and his office has issued no official report. Kuntsevich believes that a report may never be released, even to the families. The foundation is now calling for yet another investigation. Any clarity that Kuryakov’s solution might have brought was quickly occluded amid an atmosphere of murk and mistrust.

The most appealing aspect of Kuryakov’s scenario is that the Dyatlov party’s actions no longer seem irrational. The snow slab, according to Greene, would probably have made loud cracks and rumbles as it fell across the tent, making an avalanche seem imminent. Kuryakov noted that although the skiers made an error in the placement of their tent, everything they did subsequently was textbook: they conducted an emergency evacuation to ground that would be safe from an avalanche, they took shelter in the woods, they started a fire, they dug a snow cave. Had they been less experienced, they might have remained near the tent, dug it out, and survived. But avalanches are by far the biggest risk in the mountains in winter, and the more experience you have, the more you fear them. The skiers’ expertise doomed them.

At the end of 1958, as the date of departure approached, Krivonishchenko wrote a letter to Dyatlov firming up various logistical matters, and he enclosed a poem addressing New Year’s greetings to the entire group:

Here’s wishing you Camps pitched on mounts afar, Routes to hike over ranges untamed,

Packs that, as ever, rest lightly on your backs, And weather that smiles upon your quest. . . . And let your footprints Trace winding tracks across the map of Russia.

Today, the Dyatlov Pass is a popular hiking and tourist destination. Hundreds have visited Height 1079, and followed Dyatlov’s route on foot, snowmobile, or skis. People come from all over the world to see the place where the tent once stood, the streambed where bodies were found, and the cedar tree, its broken branches still visible. Others come to take measurements, photographs, and videos to support their pet theories. The windswept heights of Dead Mountain have become a site of pilgrimage. Long after their deaths, Dyatlov and his friends did indeed leave their footprints across the map of Russia. ♦

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1 Woodborough Road Nottingham, NG1 3FG United Kingdom T: +44 115 8240181 www.blinds-2go.co.uk

16 James Bright Ave Driehoek, Germiston 1401 Johannesburg South Africa T: +27 11 624 2584 T: +27 11 624 2585

Luxaflex South Africa

16 James Bright Ave Driehoek, Germiston 1401 Johannesburg South Africa T: +27 11 251 7002 www.luxaflex.co.za

W.H. Produkter

Tarupvej 47-49 5210 Odense Denmark Tel: +45 (70) 237799 Email: [email protected] www.faber.dk

Kummingatan 11 A SE-424 43 Angered Sweden tel:+46 31 3322 880 [email protected] www.turnils.com

Luxaflex Scandinavia

Mindpark, Bredgatan 11 SE-252 25 Helsingborg Sweden T: + 46 03 7189500 [email protected] www.luxaflex.se

NBK Iberia Terracota Arquitectonica

Parque Industrial e Empresarial da Figueira da Foz Lote 85 PT-3090-380 Figueira da Foz Portugal T:+351 (233) 408670 [email protected] nbkterracotta.com

Luxaflex Portugal

Zona Industrial N16 -2 Albergaria -a-Velha 3850-184 Portugal T:+351 234 524990 [email protected] www.hdpt.pt

Apollo Window Blinds

The Titan Business Centre Euroway House Roydsdale Way Bradford BD4 6SE United Kingdom T:  +44 1274028835 [email protected] www.apollo-blinds.co.uk

Dyrskuev 22 2040 Kløfta Norway T: + 47 63 981710 [email protected] www.markisemannen.no

Hunter Douglas Solskjerming AS (Fasadeprodukter)

Årøsetervegen 10 N-6422 Molde Norway T:  +47 911 50200 [email protected] www.fasadeprodukter.no

Stevens (Scotland)

Denburn Way Brechin Angus DD9 7DW Scotland United Kingdom T: +44 1356 625111 [email protected] www.stevensscotland.co.uk

Hunter Douglas Europe

Piekstraat 2 3071 EL Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 486 9911 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasgroup.com

Hunter Douglas Belgium

Industriezone E17/1080, Dijkstraat 26 9160 Lokeren Belgium T: +32 9 348 9000 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Hunter Douglas Belgium Division Helioscreen Fabrics

Industriezone E17/1080, Dijkstraat 26 9160 Lokeren Belgium T: +32 9 348 9000 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Hunter Douglas Belgium Division Helioscreen Projects

Industriezone E17/1080, Dijkstraat 26 9160 Lokeren Belgium T: +32 9 348 9000 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Hunter Douglas Belgium Architectural products

Luxaflex belgium.

Dirk Martensstraat 3 8200 Brugge Belgium T: 32 50 317 7830 [email protected] www.luxaflex.be

Hunter Douglas Bulgaria

120 James Bourchier Blvd 1407 Sofia Bulgaria T:  + 359 2 979 0303 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Hunter Douglas Croatia

Hektoroviceva ulica 2 10000 Zagreb Croatia T: +385 98 1305813

Hunter Douglas Czechia

Na Brevnovske plani 25 169 00 Prague 6 Czechia T: +420 241 727 704 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas-kadan.cz

Tomasikova 19 821 05 Bratislava Slovakia T: +421 248 269 599 www.hunterdouglas-kadan.cz

Hunter Douglas Kadan

Tusimice c.15 432 01 Kadan Czechia T: +420 474 319 211 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas-kadan.cz

Tangen 8, Skejby DK- 8200 Aarhus N Denmark T: +45 86 17 93 77 [email protected] www.luxaflex.dk

Evaholmsvej 14-16 Hornum DK-9600 Aars Denmark T: +45 98 66 16 88 [email protected] www.luxaflex.dk

Zone Industrielle, Route de Fontaine Simon 28240 La Loupe France T: +33 2 375 36 161 [email protected]

Luxaflex France

Zone Industrielle de Tourcoing Nord, 23 rue des Forts 59960 Neuville-en-Ferrain France T: +33 320 69 35 35 [email protected] www.luxaflex.fr

Hunter Douglas Components

Immeuble CARNOT 2 4-6 Rue Sadi Carnot 4ème étage 93170 BAGNOLET France T: +33 1 4851 9825 [email protected] www.hunterdouglascomponents.com/fr/

Luxalon Plafonds France

3, Avenue des Marronniers 94380 Bonneuil Cedex France T: +33 1 4339 9100 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

58, Chemin du Mont Maurin 38630 Veyrins-Thuellin France T: +33 474 336 615 [email protected] www.sunscreen-mermet.com

Osterstader Strasse 16 27572 Bremerhaven Germany T: +49 471 79 84 272 [email protected] www.benthin.com

Flexalum Sonnenschutzesysteme

Erich Ollenhauer-Stasse 5-7 40595 Dusseldorf-Garath Germany T: +49 211 73 91 950 [email protected] www.flexalum.de

Druseltalstraße 25 D 34131 Kassel Germany T:  +49 561 4099 80 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas.de

Hunter Douglas Entwicklungsgesellschaft

Nordenhamer Strasse 9 27572 Bremerhaven Germany T: +49 471 972 500 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas.de

Norderneystrasse 3 28217 Bremen Germany T: +49 421 386 920 [email protected] www.bloecker.de

Hunter Douglas Architektur-Systeme

Erich Ollenhauer-Stasse 7 40595 Düsseldorf-Garath Germany T:  +49 211 97 08 60 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

NBK Keramik

Reeser Strasse 235 46446 Emmerich Germany T: +49 28 22 811 117 [email protected] nbkterracotta.com

Hunter Douglas Hungary

Bokor u. 9-11 H-1037 Budapest Hungary T: +36 1 391 45 90 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Atghoe Newcastle Co. Dublin Ireland T: +353 1 458 9081 [email protected] www.tmblinds.ie

Hunter Douglas Italy

via Paracelso, 26 Palazzo Cassiopea 3 I-20864 Agrate Brianza (MB) Italy T: +39 039 89015201 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Bosscheweg 79 5735 GT Aarle-Rixtel Netherlands T: +31 492 386 500 [email protected] www.artelux.com

Voorveld 3 6071 RE Swalmen Netherlands T: +31 475 318 227 [email protected] www.ascobv.com

Marconistraat 12 7903 AG Hoogeveen Netherlands T: +31 528 266 231 [email protected]

Hunter Douglas Ceiling Center

Piekstraat 2 3071 EL Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 486 9911 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.com

Hunter Douglas Coil Coating Operations

Piekstraat 2 3071 EL Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 486 9911 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasgroup.com

Hunter Douglas Alu coil operations

Hunter douglas architectural projects nederland.

Piekstraat 2 3071 EL Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 496 2222 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Hunter Douglas Benelux

Piekstraat 2 3071 EL Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 2974 373 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasgroup.com

Oudlandsedijk 14 4731 TB Oudenbosch Netherlands T:  +31 10-700 1400 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasgroup.com

Luxaflex Nederland

Blaak 555 3011 GB Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 184 674 100 [email protected] www.luxaflex.nl

Luxaflex Outdoor

Blaak 555 3011 GB Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 184 674 250 [email protected] www.luxaflex.nl

Schellekens & Schellekens

Platinawerf 10 6641 TL Beuningen Netherlands T: +31 24 677 8000 [email protected] www.schellekens.com

Multisol Raambekleding

St. Hubertusstraat 4 6531 LB Nijmegen Netherlands T: +31 24 356 5565 [email protected] www.multisol.nl

Sunway Benelux

Overijsselhaven 30 3433 PH Nieuwegein Netherlands T: +31 30 608 3100 [email protected] www.sunway.nl

Hunter Douglas Norge

Thomasdalen 12 N-2818 Gjövik Norway T: +47 61 134 005 [email protected]

Hunter Douglas Norge Project Division Vental

Enebakkveien 117 b 0680 Oslo Norway T: +47 23 288 600 [email protected] vental.no

Brobekkveien 80, Okern N-0582 Oslo Norway T: +47 23 17 33 00 [email protected] www.luxaflex.no

Hunter Douglas Polska

Ul. Marywilska 34B 03-228 Warsaw Poland T: +48 22 614 1671 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Hunter Douglas Fabrication

Ul. Poznanska 31 62-001 Chludowo Poland T: +48 61 6477 400 [email protected] www.jestesmyhunterdouglas.pl

Magnum Metal

2, Ceramiczna str. 98-220 Zdunska Wola Poland T: +48 43 823 5127 [email protected] magnum-metal.pl

Hunter Douglas Romania

Bd.Basarabia no. 80 Et.1 Sector 2 022119 Bucharest Romania T: +40 21 322 9046 F: +40 21 327 4355 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas.ro

Hunter Douglas Architectural Russia

Ms. Elena Bulimova 11/52 6th floor office 13 Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya Moscow 105120 Russian Federation T: +7 495 132 7332 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas.ru

Hunter Douglas Serbia

Blok VI, Izletnički put 4a 11070 Belgrade Serbia T: +381 11 2608 538 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Hunter Douglas Architectural

Northriding Business Park No. 7 Aintree Road Northriding South Africa T: +27 11 251 7000 www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Hunter Douglas Espana

La Granja 15, P.I. (Edif. B, PI 1) 28108 Alcobendas (Madrid) Spain T: +34 91 661 8900 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Hunter Douglas Scandinavia

Kristineholmsvägen 14 A SE-441 39 Alingsås Sweden T: +46 322 77500 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas.se

Hunter Douglas Assembly Automation

Handverkargatan 28 SE-444 32 Stenungsrund Sweden T: +46 303 79 8000

Rönnowsgatan 10, 5 tr SE-252 25 Helsingborg Sweden T: +46 03 7189500 [email protected] www.luxaflex.se

Tråddragarleden 51 SE-334 32 Anderstorp Sweden T: +46 03 7189500 [email protected] www.luxaflex.se

Åslegatan 1 SE-521 41 Falköping Sweden T: +46 03 7189500 [email protected] www.luxaflex.se

Hunter Douglas Schweiz

Längenbold 3 CH-6037 Root Switzerland T: +41 41 455 5050 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Hunter Douglas Administration

Adligenswilerstrasse 37 6006 Luzern Switzerland T: +41 41 419 2700 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasgroup.com

Hunter Douglas Middle East

P.O.Box 17283 Jebel Ali Dubai United Arab Emirates T: +971 4 813 1800 [email protected] www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.eu

Luxaflex UK

Battersea Road, Heaton Mersey Industrial Estate, Stockport, Cheshire SK4 3EQ United Kingdom T: +44 161 442 9500 [email protected] www.luxaflex.co.uk

Eclipse Blind Systems

Inchinnan Business Park, Inchinnan Renfrew PA4 9RE United Kingdom T: +44 141 812 3322 [email protected]​.uk www.eclipseblinds.co.uk

Faber Blinds UK

Kilvey Road, Brackmills Northampton NN4 7BQ United Kingdom T: +44 1604 766251 [email protected] www.faberblinds.co.uk

Hunter Douglas (Sunflex)

Keys Park Road Hednesford, Cannock, Staffs. WS12 2 FR United Kingdom T: +44 1543 271 421 [email protected] www.sunflex.co.uk

Levolor Kirsch Assembly Facility

Calle 16-17 Industrial, 84269 Agua Prieta, Son. Mexico T:52-633-338-9100 www.levolor.com

Hunter Douglas Peru

Jr. Galdeano y mendoza 750 Lima 1 Lima Peru T: 51 1 708 4000

Hunter Douglas Panamá

Calle 106B Este, Local 7 A-H, Urbanización Chanis, Parque Lefevre, Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá PO BOX0830-01313 Panamá T: 507 66 786869

Hunter Douglas Venezuela

La Estancia Edificio General piso 4 office 4B Chuao Caracas Venezuela 1071 T: 58 212 959 5121 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas.com.ve

Hunter Douglas Mexico

Av. Gustavo Baz 166-A Col. La Escuela Tlalneplantla Edo. Mexico Mexico 54090 T: 52 55 2169 0010 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas.com.mx

Hunter Douglas Colombia

Autopista Medellin, Kilometro 6 + 200 Costado Sur, 400 mts. Entrando Por Festo 250027 Tenjo, Cundinamarca T: 57 1 4120565 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas.com.co

Hunter Douglas Chile

Av. Portales Oriente, 1757 San Bernardo Chile 7872049 T:56 2 394000 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas.cl

Hunter Douglas do Brasil

Rua Estácio de Sá, 1860 Campinas SP Brazil 13080-010 T: 55 19 37084000 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas.com.br

Hunter Douglas Argentina

Laprida 4755 1603 Vila Marteli Buenos Aires Argentina T: 54 11 47098700 [email protected] www.hunterdouglas.com.ar

Hunter Douglas Latina America Headquarters

Cidade Jardim Corporate Center Av. Magalhães de Castro, 4.800, Park Tower – 8° Andar Cidade Jardim São Paulo SP Brazil 05676-120 T:(11) 2135-1000 T:(11) 2135-1002

Select Blinds Canada

5490 Thimens Boulevard Suite 210 Montreal, QC, H4R 2K9 T: 888-685-1735

Select Blinds

145 South 79th Street Suite 85 Chandler, AZ 85226 T: (888) 257-1840

Hunter Douglas Metals And Distribution Center

222 Laney Road Tupelo MS 38868 T: 662-690-8190

3 Day Blinds

167 Technology Drive Irvine, CA 92618 T: 877-712-3329

Progressive Screens

5350 Pinkney Avenue Sarasota, FL 34233 T: 941-360-0037

101-435 North Service Road W. Oakville, ON L6M 4X8 T: 800-850-4555

Hunter Douglas Corporate Office

55 West 46th Street, 27th Floor, New York, NY 10036 T: 845-664-7000

Levolor Manufacturing Facility

1330 West 3300 South Street Ogden, UT 84401 T:801-778-1127

Levolor Call Center

4310 Regency Drive Suite 100 High Point, NC 27265 T:336-781-1140

Levolor Corporate Office

5775 Glenridge Drive, Bldg. A Atlanta, GA 30328 T:770-418-7830

4770 Ohio Avenue S, Suite A Seattle, WA 98134 T:206-524-2223

Architectural Window Coverings

12975 Brookprinter Place Suite 210 Poway, CA 92064 T: 858-679-7500

Hunter Douglas Custom Shutter

1805 West Drake Drive Tempe, Arizona 85283 T: 877-553-4426

One Hunter Douglas Drive Cumberland, MD 21502 T: 800-365-3399

111 North Apollo Road Salt Lake City, UT 84116 T: 800-950-4254

2080 Enterprise Blvd. West Sacramento, CA 95691 T: 800-473-1112

Hunter Douglas Horizontal Blinds

1805 West Drake Drive Tempe, Arizona 85283 T: 480-558-7677

Hunter Douglas Plastics & Casting Center

1600 Ragu Drive Owensboro, KY 42303 T: 270-926-6665

Hunter Douglas Window Designs

201 Southridge Parkway Bessemer City, NC 28016 T: 704-629-6500

Hunter Douglas Window Fashions

One Duette Way Broomfield, CO 80020 T: 303-466-1848

3form Material Solutions

2300 South, 2300 West Suite Salt Lake City, Utah 84119 T: 800-726-0126

5970 North Main Street Cowpens, South Carolina 29330 T: 864-463-1200

Architectural Window Shades

99000 Gidley Street El Monte, CA 95691 T: 626-578-1936

Carole Fabrics Corporation

633 Northwest Frontage Road Augusta, GA 30907 T: 706-863-4742

21 Elm Street Maplewood, New York 12189 T: 518-273-3333

Custom Brands Group

12800 Center Court Drive S., Suite 450 Cerritos, CA 90703 T: 213-749-6333

Eclipse Shutters

1750 Satelite Blvd Suite 100 Buford, GA 30518 T: 770-995-2222

Flexo Solutions

5710 Technology Circle Appleton, Wisconsin 54914 T: 920-882-8568

950 Quality Drive Lancaster, SC 29721 T: 803-286-4500

Timber Blinds

1400 Lavon Drive McKinney, TX 75069 T: 972-569-9100

Vista Products, Inc.

8801 Corporate Sq Court Jacksonville, FL 32216 T: 904-725-2242

Hunter Douglas Canada

2908 Portland Drive Oakville, Ontario, L6H 5W8 T: 905-796-7883

Shade-O-Matic

132 First Gulf Blvd. Toronto, ON L6W 4T7 T: 905-796-7883

2908 Portland Drive Oakville, ON L6H 5W8 T: 905-825-2276

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Hunter Douglas Duette PowerView smart shade review: Ultimate luxury, sophistication, and privacy

Expert's Rating

• Top-down/bottom-up style delivers maximum privacy and the best lighting options
• Broad support for smart-home system integrations, including Alexa, Google Assistant, and HomeKit
• Powerful remote-control options
• Price includes professional consultation and installation
• No DIY installation option
• Battery and mounting brackets visible from outside the window
• No double-cell option
• Very expensive

Our Verdict

These luxurious smart shades are supremely sophisticated, but they’re also very expensive and there is no DIY option.

Best Prices Today: Hunter Douglas Duette shade with PowerView Automation

The primary appeal of motorized top-down/bottom-up shades is their ability to open and close in two directions: They can open by dropping the top of the shade down from the window’s head to the sill, and by lifting the bottom of the shade up from the sill to the head. But Hunter Douglas couldn’t justify the lofty price tag of its Duette with PowerView Automation shades unless they were also the most luxurious and innovative shades we’ve reviewed to date.

Top-down/bottom-up shades are a fantastic option because they enhance privacy without completely blocking light from entering the room. If your window faces a busy street, you can lower the shade down from the top to admit light without exposing your room to a view from the street. Or you can drop the top of the shade down in the early morning, so the room is bathed in morning sunlight without impeding your ability to move about the room freely—anyone looking toward your window will only be able to as much of you as you wish to expose. And since these are motorized smart shades, you can create automated schedules to reposition the shades as many times each day and night that you’d care to program, including at sunrise and sunset.

You’ll find our October 2023 review of Hunter Douglas Duette shades with the company’s third -generation PowerView technology at the preceding link. Both reviews are part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best smart shades , where you’ll find reviews of competing products, plus a buyer’s guide to the features you should consider when shopping for this type of product.

Hunter Douglas’ Duette honeycomb shades with PowerView automation can open from the top down, the bottom up, or both.

I had this shade installed in a guest room that has the same southern exposure as my home theater (where I have a Graber Virtual Cord Motorized Shade installed), so I selected Hunter Douglas’ Duette honeycomb shade with a room-darkening cellular fabric (there are a host of other options to choose from). Where Graber’s shades use two cells made with metalized fabric to enhance the fabric’s ability both to block light and to reduce heat transfer into the room, Hunter Douglas’ Duette shades use a cell-within-a-cell design consisting of fabric laminated to Mylar. Lutron, meanwhile, lines its cellular shades with aluminum, but like Hunter Douglas, offers only single-cell construction. Hunter Douglas says its design allows the cells in its shades to be larger—this shade has .75-inch cells, but 1.25-inch cells are an available option—while enhancing the shade’s energy efficiency and room-darkening ability.

Insulation and room darkening features

Mentioned in this article, graber virtual cord motorized shade.

Using a Westward 1VER1 non-contact laser infrared thermometer , I recorded ambient temperatures 12 inches from the window with the shade open and then closed and saw a heat reduction of 6.5 degrees Fahrenheit with the shade closed. My master bathroom window, where I have a Lutron Serena honeycomb smart shade installed, and my home theater window, where I have the aforementioned Graber smart shade installed, all have the same southern exposure (albeit with different overhead eave widths), so I performed the same measurements in those rooms. The Serena shade reduced the ambient temperature at one foot by 3.5 degrees, but the double-celled Graber shade slashed it by 13.5 degrees.

The honeycomb-like cells in Hunter Douglas’ Duette shades reduce heat transfer into the room. The room-darkening shade shown here features fabric laminated to Mylar.

All three shades did an excellent job of darkening the rooms they’re installed in, although there was some light leakage around the edges in each case, because I chose to install them inside the window frame. This wouldn’t have been an issue had I chose an outside mount, but I didn’t want to cover up the decorative molding that’s around all the windows in my house.

That said, the Hunter Douglas leaked the least amount of light at its top rail, and Hunter Douglas also offers an added-cost option that will significantly ameliorate the issue: The company’s LightLock system consists of U-shaped side channels that mount to the window sill and the left and right window jambs. The company says micro ridges on these panels absorb and deflect incoming light, and that the bottom panel overlaps the front and back of the shade’s bottom rail and feature magnets to create a secure closure. I did not evaluate this option, which adds $35 per foot for the vertical panels and $8 per foot for the bottom panel (prices are determined by the length and width of the shade). If I were installing this shade in my home theater, I would spring for the additional cost.

Hunter Douglas’ LightLock system is designed to prevent light from leaking around shades mounted inside the window frame.

Power options

The Hunter Douglas shade looks better when viewed from outside the window than Graber’s shade does, but the optional panel you can buy for Lutron’s Serena shade completely hides its mounting hardware. And Lutron’s battery compartment is inside the headrail—accessible from the front—so you don’t see that, either. Hunter Douglas shades can be hardwired for power or they can run on battery power, with two options available. You can purchase a battery pack that uses alkaline batteries, but the better choice is the company’s rechargeable “battery wand.” This mounts to the back of the shade’s headrail, much like the battery pack on Graber’s shade, but a magnet secures the battery to its socket. When you need to replace a dead battery, you just reach up, pluck it out, and then snap in a freshly charged replacement.

The battery wand is held in place with magnets and is supremely easy to replace when you need to swap it for a freshly charged one.

The battery wand isn’t the cheapest solution—it adds $65 to the price of the shade if you choose it as the power source—and the battery-charger options cost extra. It is, however, the most sophisticated power solution I’ve seen in this space. There’s a $50 charger that connects directly to the mounted shade, which means you’ll see a dangling wire while you recharge the battery. The $95 Dual Charging Station that Hunter Douglas provided with this review unit is a far more elegant solution. You can put it anywhere there’s an electrical outlet, and it can charge two battery wands simultaneously. Spare batteries cost $70 each, so for a combined cost of $135, you’ll never need to worry about not being to operate the shade due to a dead battery. The charging station is even more useful if, as will be likely, you have more than one shade installed in your home.

These battery wands, shown here plugged into the dual charger, are the most elegant power solution we’ve seen for motorized shades.

Speaking of power, this is a good time to discuss how much noise Hunter Douglas’ shade motor produces during operation. I registered an 8.85dB increase in noise level while the shade was opening from fully closed to fully open, compared to an 8.3dB increase for the Lutron Serena shade, and a 9.6dB increase with the Graber shade. Bottom line: All three shades operate very quietly, and none of them are likely to wake you from a slumber, but Lutron’s product is the quietest of the three. The Powershades TruePoE shade , which utilizes power over ethernet instead of batteries, has a considerably louder motor. It’s very fast, but I registered a 16dB increase in noise with that product.

Smart home integrations

Serena by lutron motorized shade.

Hunter Douglas’s PowerView smart home integrations run the gamut from DIY (IFTTT, Logitech Harmony Home, and Apple HomeKit) to professionally installed (including Control4, Crestron, Elan, and Savant). You can also control them via voice commands (Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant), but you’ll need the company’s $285 PowerView hub to do so. That said, you won’t need the hub if you only intend to use the PowerView’s own remote controls (more on those in a bit).

The hub creates a proprietary network using spectrum in the 2.4GHz frequency range. If you have a large home, Hunter Douglas offers signal repeaters that extend the PowerView hub’s reach. These plug into any outlet and provide the added benefit of an LED nightlight that casts a pool of light on the floor below it. Graber’s Z-Wave-powered smart shades can be controlled by most any Z-Wave-compatible smart home hub (e.g., Samsung SmartThings, for example, or the Vivint Smart Home system I use) or the company’s own $180 Z-Wave hub. Lutron’s Serena shades, meanwhile, depend on Lutron’s $80 Caséta Smart Bridge.

The PowerView hub can connect to your router wirelessly or via an ethernet cable.

The sophistication of Hunter Douglas’ motorized shade offering comes to the fore when you consider the two types of circular remote controls it offers, each of which comes in either a handheld or wall-mount form factor (technically speaking, there are four remotes to choose from). The company provided the handheld variants—the PowerView Pebble and the PowerView Pebble Scene Controller—for this review. The wall-mount versions are the same devices as the handheld units, but they’re fitted into sockets that attach to the wall. These remotes have the word “Surface” appended to their names. All the remotes operate on two CR2032 coin cell batteries.

Each Pebble remote control can control up to six groups of Hunter Douglas PowerView motorized shades, manually or via pre-programmed scenes.

Programming the PowerView Pebble remote ($70) entails first arranging all the shades in your home into groups, using Hunter Douglas’ PowerView app (available for Android and iOS), and then assigning each group to one of six buttons arranged in a half circle around the edge of the remote. If you have a large number of shades, you can deploy multiple remotes on the same network. You can also deploy multiple remotes with the same functions, so you can leave them in different rooms. To control a group of shades, you press the numbers that represent them: group 1 only, any combination (groups 1, 3, and 6; for instance), or “all” to select all the shades in the house. The group numbers on the remote will light up to indicate they’ve been selected.

You can now open or close all the shades in that group, or you can raise them from the bottom up or down from the top. A button in the middle of the remote stops whatever action has been initiated, and a heart button can be programmed to recall a favorite scene involving one or multiple shades. The $100 PowerView Scene Controller can also control one or many shades, but it’s outfitted with an LCD display that shows the names of the scenes you’ve created in the app. Pressing the left and right arrow keys scrolls through the scenes, and pressing the Select button activates them. You can also program two favorite scenes and activate them with one-touch heart buttons.

The Pebble Scene Controller Surface is designed to be mounted to a wall. The LCD display shows which scene will occur when you press the Select button.

Prices and bottom line

Hunter Douglas’ PowerView Duette are the most expensive motorized shades we’ve reviewed. They’re also the most luxurious and the most sophisticated. The top-down/bottom-up feature is a boon to privacy, the battery-wand option is supremely convenient, and the remote-control options are fabulous. When you consider the price tag, which I’ll get to in a moment, remember that it includes a professional consultation to determine your wants and needs; having a technician come to your home to perform all the measurements; and then having them come back several weeks later to install the shades, program your hub and remote controls, and orient you to how everything works. There is no DIY option available, and Hunter Douglas does not sell direct to consumers—you’ll need to work with one of its dealers or an authorized smart home system integrator.

Powershades TruePoE motorized roller shade

The 58 x 58-inch shade supplied for this review costs $1,274, including the motorization option. The PowerView Hub required for smart home integration costs an additional $285, the wireless repeater is another $60, and the Pebble remote and scene controller go for $70 and $100 respectively. That brings the total cost for this project to an eye-popping $1,789. Realistically, however, I could have easily done without the remotes (a smart speaker would’ve worked just as well) and the repeater (which I didn’t need anyway, given that the room where I installed the shade is directly across from the room where my network home run—and the PowerView hub—are located). That would bring the real-world cost for the shade and the hub down to $1,559. That equates to about $22 per inch (widthwise) compared to the self-installed options we’ve reviewed to date: $10 per inch for the Graber Virtual Cord, $13 per inch for the Powershade TruePoE, and $14 per inch for the Lutron Serena. (The cost of hubs, remotes, and other options is not included in my per-inch calculations to make apples-to-apples comparisons.)

Clearly, having someone else measure and install the shades costs a lot. On the other hand, having someone else perform those steps means you’re off the hook if they make an expensive mistake during either step. I’ve measured three of my home’s windows and installed new treatments so far and have yet to goof, but that doesn’t mean I’ve stopped stressing about it—even now that I’ve graduated to using a laser measure for the task. Knowing a mistake will waste several hundred dollars will do that to you.

But for many people, knowing the DIY route can save several hundred dollars is all the motivation needed to get over any lingering insecurity. And there are plenty of other people who just have more confidence in their DIY skills. It’s also worth noting that the manufacturers of each of the other smart shades we’ve reviewed offer the option of ordering through a dealer with professional installation.

The real bottom line is that you’ll need to decide which camp you’re in and how much convenience, luxury, and sophistication are worth to you. As for me, I think the higher cost of the Hunter Douglas product is justified.

Updated on October 27, 2020 to clarify that the PowerView hub isn’t required if you plan on controlling the PowerView Duette using its own remote.

Author: Michael Brown , Executive Editor

Michael is TechHive's lead editor, with 30+ years of experience covering the tech industry, focusing on the smart home, home audio, and home theater. He built his own smart home in 2007 and used it as a real-world test lab for product reviews. Following a relocation to the Pacific Northwest, he is now converting his new home, an 1890 Victorian bungalow, into a modern smart home.

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