The Deadly Case of 9 Fleeing Skiers (Soviet Mystery from 1959)

Moscow Times, Issue 3834. Page 1 ^ | February 4, 2008 | Svetlana Osadchuk

[struwwelpeter]

Some links:
Site (in Russian): http://pereval1959.narod.ru/
Photo archives (from 1959):
http://infodjatlov.narod.ru/fg4/index.htm
http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_album.php?id=32891

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Bad link. Looking for page 2? Is there any more to this story or was it posted here in its entirety?

[BOBTHENAILER]

very interesting story

[warsaw44]

ping for later read.

[Joiseydude]

For reading later

[lilylangtree]

Fascinating. An X-file case.

[okie01]

Very interesting story.

There seems to be no conceivable natural explanation...

[wildbill]

And they haven’t discovered the secret Yeti?

[Calvin Locke]

Split the difference. Some secret test started the avalanche...forcing the group to cut the tent and flee to their deaths.

Or, the secret tests forced them to flee.

[Joe Boucher]

A Yeti wouldn’t not have caused high levels of radiation.
Nor would the Mansi.
The military or Space invaders could have though.
I tend to believe the soviet military story as being the more correct one.

[DUMBGRUNT]

The footprints had been left by people who were wearing socks, a single shoe or were barefoot.

Barefoot? I have done some winter camping and climbing and never known anyone to sleep barefoot? Most have a pair of dry socks, booties or both for sleeping. At minus 20F (-30c) you put most of your dry clothes on to sleep in.

Once when my wife was with we had paired bags that we zipped together, bad idea! She is a light sleeper and with each move the bags would expand a bit and pull in some very cold air!

[lilylangtree]

A military test may have started avalanche but why did the woman broken ribs not have a tongue, one with a cracked skull, one with a crushed skull, one with broken ribs, and the clothes containing radiation. Sounds pretty mysterious.

[A knight without armor]

That is strange. If she had somehow bitten off her tongue I would think the investigators would have figured that out. If she had been a handicapped person with an amputated tongue that would have been well known I also would think. I have never heard this story before. It is very intriguing. I wonder if they were forced at gun point to undress. But then if there were no other footprints... Surely in those conditions one would always be wearing just about every single piece of dry garment available.

[lilylangtree]

As a longshot if there had been some type of test and they were discovered on the mountatin, I was thinking maybe the military or the KGB may have questioned them rather harshly. Could explain the broken ribs and crushed and cracked skulls and perhaps the missing tongue.

[Calvin Locke]

Some sort of rodent, perhaps?

Or, maybe she bit and swallowed the tongue in the avalanche?

As for the other injuries, I'll chalk it up to unevenly scattered debris in the avalanche.

They all got hit differently.

Go back to "military test" for the radiation...

[martin_fierro]

Weird.

[struwwelpeter]

I was reading the Russian site, and saw some extremely strange stuff, but, unfortunately, I don't have much time these days for long translations.


This picture states that 9 Mansi (Ural natives) died near the site of a glowing ball, which is captioned "something appearing in the sky frightening the tourists (1.02.59)." The caption on the tent reads: "the tourists in a panic cut their way out of the tent, and... they run down the slope. Their footprints disappear (500 meters from the tent)." The five lines point to the locations of the bodies of the 9 dead tourists/skiers, and the three lines to the right point to sites of plane crashes with 9 fatalities.

The mountain on which they camped in the local Mansi dialect is the "Mountain of the Dead" (even before the accident/incident).

The case has a minor cult following in Russia, and there's a work of fiction based on what might have happened.

Google "Dyatlov Pass" and you'll get UFOs, monsters, secret weapons, the supernatural, and even numerology.

[zot]

Ping

[SunkenCiv]

By 1959 Soviet research into radiation had taken a back seat to biological weapons research. Perhaps they’d gone into a remote area to try LSD, and, uh, took a little too much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD

[Quix]

Interesting.

The radiation aspect sounds UFO-y.

Thx.